Siemens in switch to new base

engineering and manufacturing group Siemens, has invested an initial £1.2m in transferring its mechanical drives business from Bradford to new premises on Navigation Park in Stourton, Leeds.

The move is designed to enable the £15m operation to handle additional and bigger contracts, including work to support the group’s planned major offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant in Hull.

It follows Siemens’ 2005 acquisition of Flender’s gear and gear-motor business for 1.2bn euros.

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The new, purpose-built 50,000 sq ft Leeds factory has created 30 per cent more production space, increased height for 25-tonne cranes and room to optimise production cell layouts and materials handling flows.

Export orders are already being fulfilled for energy provider customers as far afield as China.

Intelligent drive systems from the division also power rail haulage and baggage handling at Heathrow, Gatwick and Munich airports.

Most of the site’s 54 skilled employees have transferred en masse from the outgrown Bradford base.

An apprentice scheme has also been created to help develop a new generation of skilled engineers.