UK aerospace sector celebrates 'phenomenal' year of business

摘要

Orders in the UK aerospace industry rose by a third in the last year, and sales by 25%,generating nearly 10,000 new jobs, according to the Society of British Aerospace Companies. The SBAC 2006 Annual Aerospace Survey, published a week before the Farnborough Air Show, paints a glowing picture of the industry. New orders reached record levels at ￡30.7bn, and productivity increased by 15%, ahead of the 5% per annum long-term trend, and stemming from significant investment by companies in process improvement. Defence sales rose by 30% to ￡12.2bn, with civil aerospace up 18% at ￡10.5bn and the space sector up 38% to ￡603m. Sales to the UK government also rose sharply, up 21% to ￡4.1bn, but the industry remains less depondont on sales to the national government - at 17.8% - than either the US industry (54.3%) or the EU 2004 average of 27.2%.