1,000 new jobs on Tyneside
An engineering company is creating up to 1,000 jobs in North Tyneside.
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Wind turbine factory promises 1,000 new jobs for Tyneside
by Ben Chapman1,000 job turbine group says market is buoyant
Graham Kennedy of the Offshore Group Newcastle says the offshore market for wind turbines is buoyant and 6,000 will be needed in the next few years in the UK sector.
OGN in Wallsend has received a government grant to build a prototype of a new foundation for offshore wind turbines. It wants to build a new factory to mass produce them by 2014, bringing up to 1,000 new jobs.
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Artist's impressions of new wind farm factory
A firm on Tyneside expects to create one thousand engineering jobs by 2014.
Offshore Group Newcastle, in Wallsend, has received a government grant to make a prototype of a new foundation for offshore wind turbines.
OGN then hopes to build a factory on North Tyneside to mass produce the new technology.
The black and yellow structures in the artist's impressions are the wind turbine 'jackets' which the company produces.
1,000 Tyneside wind farm jobs
by Ben Chapman
An engineering firm plans to mass produce the foundations for wind turbines, creating up to 1,000 jobs
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An engineering company is creating up to 1,000 jobs in North Tyneside. Offshore Group Newcastle received a £640,000 Government grant for its move into offshore wind technology.
The firm will build a prototype at its Wallsend site later this year.