Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Hitachi eyes sites for £100m UK factory

Hitachi plans to open a new ВЈ100m factory to build 1,400 new intercity train carriages.

Sites at Sheffield, Gateshead and Ashby de la Zouch, in Leicestershire are being looked as potential locations by the Japanese engineering giant. 

Production would start well before 2013.






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