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£2.5m AIS manufacturing centre to create 30 jobs on North Tyneside

North East manufacturer and industrial trainer AIS is creating 30 new jobs on North Tyneside by opening a new £2.5m manufacturing facility.

AIS Technical, the company’s technical division, will expand its existing operation into an additional new 14,000sqft purpose-built site, which is located alongside AIS’s existing two acre offshore training village and onsite hotel on the Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate, North Tyneside.

AIS Technical manufactures, exports and installs insulation and passive fire protection systems (PFP) for the global offshore, energy, petrochemical and heavy industry sectors.

The new facility will be specially designed to create amanufacturing and innovation centre for AIS Technical incorporating fully-automated systems such as CAD design, precision-cutting, machining, assembly and despatch, as well as an extensive R&D centre.

The firm’s business development, management and administrative functions will also be transferred to the new centre, will enable overall capacity to be increased by up to 80%.

Head of AIS Technical, Chris Evans, said: “The pace of growth for AIS has been phenomenal. In just 12 months we have grown turnover by 80%, doubled the size of our workforce and invested in new sites in Aberdeen, Grimsby and Huddersfield.

“We are now investing again to expand our North Shields site for the benefit of the entire business and this new facility will help us to continue this success.

“We’ve set ourselves ambitious targets for the growth for AIS Technical over the next five years, including a big push into new territories in America and Brazil, leading to more new jobs and increased local investment.”