Thompson Aero Seating: Aerospace firm opens new £7.5m Banbridge facility

A Northern Ireland aerospace firm is opening a new £7.5m testing facility in Banbridge.Aerospace is a highly regulated industry and parts can only be certified for airworthiness after approved testing.That would add time and cost to the development and certification of products.

Keith Anderson, Thompson chief executive, said: "The significance of this new state-of-the-art facility cannot be over emphasised in terms of the opportunities it provides. "Our orderbook is very strong and the growth trajectory we have over the coming years will be underpinned and supported by our new in-house capability."The new Dynamic Test Facility allows engineers to reproduce the conditions of an aircraft crash event in a controlled environment and assess how the seats perform.

Most of the money for the new facility is from Thompson's Chinese owner, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, though Invest NI has also provided some funding. Jeremy Fitch, Executive Director at Invest NI, said: "This investment in engineering and business capability represents an important and ambitious milestone in Thompson's Northern Ireland story."

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