Shannon meets with Collins Aerospace in Westminster event for apprenticeship week
Strangford DUP MP Jim Shannon has attended the ADS Apprenticeship reception at Westminster and met with Collin Aerospace representatives from Kilkeel and apprentice Lee during apprenticeship week.
Jim Shannon said: “RTX’s Collins Aerospace business has invested over £16m in an ambitious research and development project at the Kilkeel site that is helping develop highly innovative passenger seating products for wide body and twin aisle aircraft.
“The investment has been supported by Invest Northern Ireland.
“Collins employs around 800 people at the County Down base and is one of a number of companies in the province which together supply 30% of the global demand for aircraft seats.
“There are a number of Strangford constituents working for Collins as well as supply companies and it is wonderful to see another business doing so well and increasing production.
“The reception was a great chance to speak with Lee, an apprentice in Collins, and highlights the important nature of apprenticeships in Northern Ireland in our manufacturing sector as well as in the trade sector.
“I know that Collins will continue to go from strength-to-strength as they build on those US connections and secure further contracts and I will be there to advocate for them in any way that I can.”
