Aerospace - overview
The aerospace industry is a success story. Key strengths are:
- UK has world’s largest aerospace industry outside the USA with 17% share of global market. Annual turnover of around £20.5bn.
- Directly employs around 101,000 people, supporting a total of 230,000 jobs across the UK economy.
- Highly-skilled workforce: 36% of all employees have University degree or equivalent.
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BAE Systems: UK's largest engineering company: advanced defence and aerospace systems (air, sea and land)
- Wing technology. Airbus (owned by EADS): Centre of Excellence for Wing and Pylon (embracing wing design, manufacture and. integration of landing systems)
- Propulsion. Rolls-Royce: world leading civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy propulsion systems.
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Bombardier (Belfast). Centre of excellence for fuselage and nacelle design and production
- Landing Gear Systems. Messier-Dowty.
- Helicopters: AgustaWestland
- Many more extremely capable Tier 1 and other suppliers of wide range of aircraft systems, equipment and services
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Technology: The government is working closely with industry to deliver the National Aerospace Technology Strategy. The government has committed around £450 million collaborative research and technology funding to aerospace research projects since April 2004. National Composites Network: a knowledge transfer network, which is developing a national strategy for promoting the composites sector in the UK and overseas. Aerospace company involvement includes Airbus and GKN.
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Process Excellence: Supply Chains for the 21st Century initiative (SC21) to improve better supply chain relationships; achieve better supply chain performance; and reduce auditing through recognition of supply chain accreditation. For further details see the A D S web site.
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Skills: the sector is covered by the SEMTA (Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies) Sector Skills Agreement. The Sector Skills Agreement is designed to ensure that 'the skills the sector needs are the skills the sector gets”. The Agreement can be found on the SEMTA web site.
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National Skills Academy for Manufacturing: being developed to create training and education programmes which will set national standards for delivery and help employers to meet the demands of global competition in terms of improved productivity, the capacity to innovate and stronger leadership. For further details see the NSAM web site.
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Sustainable Aviation: A commitment by leading airlines, airports, aerospace manufacturers and the air traffic service to delivering radical improvements in carbon dioxide emissions, nitrogen oxide emissions and aircraft noise over the next 15 years. For further details see the Sustainable Aviation web site.
For queries about the above, or the work of the Aerospace Team, contact Roger Bourne on 020 7215 1128.
