Boeing’s Sheffield factory marks its fifth anniversary, commemorating its significant achievements since its inauguration in 2018.
This facility is Boeing’s first-ever European manufacturing site, situated in South Yorkshire.
Over the past five years, Boeing Sheffield has shipped more than 21,000 UK-made parts supporting the production of the 737 family of aircraft.
This South Yorkshire site produces the trailing edge actuator components crucial for the 737 series airplanes, ensuring effective control of wing flaps during vital flight phases like take-off and landing.
Notable achievements of Boeing Sheffield since its establishment include:
- Creating over 100 jobs.
- Collaborating with more than 30 direct and indirect suppliers located within 100 miles.
- Training over 30 machining apprentices through collaboration with the University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre, a majority of whom are now Boeing employees.
- Partnering in a recent £80m joint venture, supported by both the industry and the UK Government.
Maria Laine, president of Boeing in the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, was quoted in a press release saying, “The enduring relationships we’ve built in the local area have been integral to our ability to deliver world-class products to our customers worldwide.”
Steve Foxley, CEO of the University of Sheffield AMRC, highlighted, “Boeing has been a crucial part of the AMRC since the beginning… Together, our partnership has spanned more than 20 years and we are proud to have played a key role in the decision for Boeing to build its only European facility here in Sheffield five years ago.”
It really shows just what a insular donkey show Boeing is that this is their only factory outside the USA. No wonder Airbus is cleaning up with production lines all around the world.
Boeing is probably a bigger threat to US power than china. America needs to be very thankful for space X.
boeing sources parts from all over the world. 30% of the 787 is built overseas- fuesalage in italy, landing gear in france etc. in 2022 boeing had 774 net orders while airbus had 820.
for widebody aircraft boeing dominated with 213 orders compared to airbus’ 63. i think boeing is doing just fine.
I don’t know that it is doing “just fine” https://investors.boeing.com/investors/news/press-release-details/2023/Boeing-Reports-Third-Quarter-Results/default.aspx
It does benefit from US policies for local production (especially in defence) & tariffs.
You really think so? Not read about the Starliner, SLS and other shitfests which, without the Govt (and taxpayer) would possibly bankrupt the whole Company. Interestingly NASA says it will no longer accept cost+ contracts while Boeing has said it will no longer negotiate fixed price ones so where that leaves the whole future of its Space business is anyone’s guess. Whether SLS and Starliner can even survive the present crisis is probably the biggest debate in US Civil Space Program, Boeing is losing billions and presently the more launches the more it will lose, a totally unsustainable scenario yet NASA simply can’t afford to finance their incompetence. No Boeing certainly are not doing just fine in its post 737 Max era of growing complacent incompetence and mis management that has been allowed to flourish through corrupt political support.
On another point though, if Boeing is building fuselages in Italy and landing gear in France why has someone above claimed this is Boeing’s first manufacturing plant in Europe?
“shows just what a insular donkey show”
more abuse from your deranged pen. Don’t you think its time you found somewhere else to post this sort of crap?
Quite the opposite. It’s Boeing’s sprawling global supply chain that has been the problem.
Any evidence for this? again their horrendous efforts on the US Space program really don’t have anything to do with their global supply chain, it’s incompetence in management, planning, design, engineering, project management and construction at home.
True of the Max clusterfuck too, which fundamentally was due to using (poorly written as it turned out) software to overcome a fundamentally flawed engineering design decision made belatedly to save time and money and bring a product to market early enough (having failed to see the competitive danger in the first place) to compete with Airbus, which it feared would eat into its 737 cash cow with its own new compelling offering.
Boeing has never been a leader in the space segment, they inherited that from MDD merger. It has nothing to do with BCA (Boeing commercial airplanes, a separate company) Reference any news article on production delays and rework, It’s problems with supply chain and contractors around the globe. Airbus is facing the same issues, as they use many of the same contractors. If you want to look at a company truly in trouble, look at the Rolls Royce commercial jet engines lineup.
both P&W & GE aero engines are also having their issues … Not just production but failures in use.
Boeing are providing jobs for Sheffield people.
Pretty good ones too. Though it is almost entirely component and system design work for the 737 Max.
I used to work just up the road from that factory, at AMRC Factory 2050 doing manufacturing tiring R&D for companies like BAE and Boeing. It was one of the original founders of the AMRC, Keith Ridgway’s final achievements before he unexpectedly stepped down. Quite the coup for UK manufacturing and Sheffield more to the point. I believe that the AMRC did a lot of the machining R&D to enable the factory to be built which is testament to the AMRC.
A very minor point but, just for historical accuracy — the amazing Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, in which Sheffield University partnered Boeing, is in Rotherham, a borough neighbouring Sheffield. It was Rotherham Investment & Development Office (RiDO) that helped Prof Keith Ridgway and Adrian Allan set it up, a leap of faith that kick-started the surrounding Advanced Manufacturing Park. I should know — I played a minor part in it all. And I always stressed that what was important was not the boundary line between Rotherham and Sheffield but that the UK was home to this ground-breaking centre and park.
Clark Herron, ex-RiDO