Deputy Prime Minister announces new jobs and investment for UK advanced engineering excellence
· Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing and MARKET-MATS, with the support of The Get It Group LLC, have signed an agreement to locate their advanced manufacturing campuses in the Hereford Enterprise Zone and Model Farm Ross-on-Wye, creating over 1,000 new jobs, over 10 per cent of whom will be apprentices, and increasing local spending power by £20 million per annum.· Airbus will recruit 169 apprentices and graduates in September, in addition to taking on around 600 new UK employees during 2012.· Bifrangi has received permission for a new steel forge in Lincoln and will invest €50 (£39) million, creating 50 and safeguarding 100 jobs.· Pirelli Group announces a £20m investment in R&D and new process machinery; creating 37 new and protecting 120 UK jobs.· GKN plc announces investment of more than £12m to increase the capacity of its facilities in Birmingham and Telford.· Precision Technologies Group (PTG) announces new £3.3 million machine sales to China.· Cella Energy is working with NASA on advanced research programmes, including space satellite radiation shielding, generating up to 25 new UK jobs.· BGS International has won a £97,000 tender to assist the Indian Government in implementing a major airborne geophysical survey programme.