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Aug 27 2008
CHESTER building firm Rok has been awarded a £2.5m contract by planemaker Airbus in Broughton to extend two buildings at the huge plant....
Aug 13 2008
BUILDING and maintenance services company Rok is to cut 200 jobs, about 4% of its workforce, as it reduces its capacity in the private sector new- build market by 40%....
Jul 31 2008
LATE deliveries of Airbus’ flagship A380 superjumbo have cost the company more than £500m in compensation payouts to airlines, it was revealed yesterday....
Jul 18 2008
AIRBUS has secured orders for 256 aircraft at an international air show – helping to guarantee work for employees at its wings factory on Deeside for years to come....
Jul 15 2008
IT WAS honours evens on the day between Airbus and its American rival Boeing at the opening of the international air show at Farnborough as Middle East airlines announced massive orders of the companies’ jets....
Jul 14 2008
AIRBUS chiefs said they were hopeful of winning back an £18bn deal to supply refuelling tanker aircraft to the US Air Force, despite a controversial decision by the US government to re-open bidding....
Jul 11 2008
AIRBUS wing makers at Broughton, near Chester, fear they may lose a contract to help build an £18bn fleet of airborne refuelling tankers for the US Air Force....
Jul 9 2008
AEROSPACE workers on Deeside will be hoping for a confidence boost at the Farnborough Air Show being staged next week....
Jun 20 2008
AIRBUS workers on Deeside are waiting to hear if they will be stripped of a multi-billion pound order for wings for airborne refuelling tankers for the US Air Force....
May 30 2008
AIRLINES may throttle back on orders for Airbus’s A380 superjumbo as rising fuel costs and an economic slowdown dent demand for travel....
