Roger Habgood

Here to serve, improve place and give purpose. Values-driven community champion. All Views my own

[Jefferson @Jefferson_MFG]

NEW FACILITY: Ford Motor Company has opened a new £24 million facility at its UK headquarters in Essex, reaffirming the Dunton Campus’ vital role in delivering Ford’s European electric vehicle plans.

The new Propulsion Development Laboratory brings Ford's investment at the site to more than £70 million in the last two years alone after recently investing £47 million in the adjacent Advanced Propulsion Laboratory (APL) and separate E:PRiME (Electrified Powertrain in Manufacturing Engineering) prototype build facility.

The Propulsion Development Laboratory comprises eight vehicle-size rooms capable of testing electric power units and propulsion systems – maximising development time, including round-the-clock component reliability sign off.

The new facility's test rooms are configured to test EV, hybrid and combustion powertrains, flexing between technologies in anticipation of market changes and customer requirements. #UKmfg

[Roger Habgood @habgood]

@BillRevans @MarcusFysh @SomersetCouncil Bill
Your known as one of the good guys. I wish you well and I’m not alone in that.
Leading a new council in normal times is tough enough. Leading when dealing with personal illness brings a different order of magnitude into the equation.

Best regards to you and your family

[Roger Habgood @habgood]

@tdlibdems @GideonJAmos Who wants to see a a Lib Dem who has no chance of being heard in Westminster. A Lib Dem vote in Taunton is a wasted vote.
Hopefully a strong Labour candidate will beat the wanna be narcissist into third place

[Jefferson @Jefferson_MFG]

NEW FACTORY: This is South Korean-owned SeAH Wind's new £400 million monopile manufacturing plant - the largest facility of its type in the world.

Under construction at Teesworks on Teesside, the mammoth 1.13million sq ft factory is expected to create 750 direct jobs plus 1,500 across the supply chain. #UKmfg

[Roger Habgood @habgood]

That will be the cheque Your owed Kit

[Kit Chapman MBE @Kit_Chapman]

Received this from @RoyalMail @RoyalMailHelp today. The contents of the envelope we’re missing. The service in our area (Bridgwater) is already a disgrace. The state of this letter beyond a joke. If anyone thinks they may have sent this, please let me know!

[Cllr Diogo Rodrigues @CllrDiogo]

Lib-Dem led Somerset Council seem to be losing money left, right and centre due to their poor management!

[Jefferson @Jefferson_MFG]

Manufacturing matters. With an annual output of £224 billion, the UK has leapfrogged France and is now the EIGHTH largest manufacturer in the world.

There has never been a more important time to support and promote the vital sector which employs 2.6 million people. Today is National Manufacturing Day and British manufacturers are opening their doors as part of a UK-wide Open House.

The aim of Make UK's National Manufacturing Day is to encourage all age groups - from school leavers to more experienced workers - to consider careers in manufacturing. #STEM #UKmfg

[Jefferson @Jefferson_MFG]

BOOM! After a bumper August, there are now a record 14,535 aircraft on order — at current production rates, this global aircraft backlog is worth around £219 billion to the UK and represents more than 10 years of advanced manufacturing work.

This is undoubtedly great news for the UK’s world-class aerospace sector which enjoys an annual turnover of £28 billion and employs more than 108,000 people. #UKmfg

[Jefferson @Jefferson_MFG]

BOOM! Airbus plans to create more than 1,100 jobs in Britain, increasing the world's biggest producer of commercial airliners' 11,500-strong UK workforce by almost 10%.

The jobs announcement comes as figures show Airbus contributed £7 billion to the UK economy last year, supported 79,000 jobs in the wider aerospace and defence sectors, and spent almost £4 billion with British suppliers.

Airbus recently pledged to open Britain’s first new helicopter factory in decades, creating hundreds of jobs and generating billions of pounds of export revenue, if the MoD chooses it to build a new generation of helicopters to replace the UK’s ageing fleet of Pumas.

If successful with its tender, Airbus plans to build a new helicopter production line at its vast wing manufacturing plant in Broughton which would become the sole Airbus site for the production of H175M military helicopters around the world. #UKmfg

[Roger Habgood @habgood]

Yep and the Liberal democrats are responsible for most of the debt. The fiscal incompetence is staggering.

[Daniel Mumby @DanielMumby]

Stark warnings have been issued about @SomersetCouncil's finances - here's how @BillRevans, @lizleyshon and their team are going to fix the problem: https://t.co/yZ02PdbX5T #LDReporter #Somerset #counciltax

[Jefferson @Jefferson_MFG]

It has been a phenomenal summer for the British automotive industry with billions of pounds invested, and thousands of jobs created and secured:

July: Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata announced plans to build a new £4 billion battery manufacturing plant in Somerset. The huge investment is expected to create more than 9,000 jobs.

July: Trade association SMMT announced that UK car production soared 11.7% in the first half of the year to 450,168 units.

July:: Aston Martin officially opened the first phase of its new £200 million F1 factory in Silverstone. When complete, 700 people will be based at the 400,000 sq ft AMR Technology Campus.

August: Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced plans to create 300 jobs in the West Midlands to support a ramp up in Range Rover production and the development of next generation electric models.

August: McMurtry Automotive, best known for best known for the electric Spéirling hypercar which famously smashed Goodwood’s Festival of Speed hill climb record last year, submitted plans for a new multi-million pound factory in Wotton-under-Edge near Stroud in Gloucestershire.

August: Lotus submitted plans for a new electric vehicle production facility as part of a major expansion of its Hethel manufacturing plant in Norfolk. In total, three new facilities are set to be built at the historic site to support the transition to EV sports car production and the expansion of its world-renowned engineering consultancy.

September: The first electric vehicles started rolling off the production line at Stellantis’ Ellesmere Port plant following a £100 million investment programme that secured the site’s future and more than 1,000 jobs.

September: Built in Britain at Burnaston, Toyota unveiled the world's first hydrogen-fuelled Hilux pick-up.

September: Roll-Royce Motor Cars submitted plans for a major expansion of its Goodwood manufacturing plant.

September: Wrightbus launched a major recruitment drive with hundreds of jobs and apprenticeships available at its Ballymena manufacturing plant.

September: BMW announced a £600 million investment at its Oxford and Swindon plants to prepare the factories for electric MINI production, securing more than 4,000 British jobs. #UKmfg

[Roger Habgood @habgood]

Bigger problem, divorce and single parent families, I think I’m right in saying, are the key drivers in housing need.

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

I actually can’t stand pundits saying how bad the housing crisis is without mentioning immigration. Yes we need more houses. But it’s just insane to ignore record immigration = demand. You have to pretend people don’t exist so you can enjoy a high moral status. Maths= you’re evil

[Roger Habgood @habgood]

Skiing ?

[Lizzie Biggs @LizzieBiggs1]

In her dress but not sure what she’s doing with her feet 🤣

[Jefferson @Jefferson_MFG]

BUILT IN BRITAIN: The first electric vehicles have started rolling off the production line at Stellantis’ Ellesmere Port plant following a £100 million investment programme that secured the site’s future and more than 1,000 jobs.

Ellesmere Port is the UK’s first EV-only manufacturing plant and the first Stellantis plant globally dedicated to electric vehicles. The Cheshire site will produce the Vauxhall Combo Electric, Opel Combo Electric, Peugeot e-Partner, Citroën ë-Berlingo and (announced today) the Fiat E-Doblò vans.

From 2024, Ellesmere Port will also produce a range of electric passenger vehicles across the Stellantis brands, including the Vauxhall Combo Life Electric, Peugeot e-Rifter and Citroën ë-Berlingo MPVs. #UKmfg

[Jefferson @Jefferson_MFG]

UPDATE: German retailer Lidl has opened a new £300 million food distribution centre in Luton, Bedfordshire. The huge 1.2 million sq ft facility - the firm's biggest warehouse in the world - is expected to create 1,500 jobs. #BritishJobs🇬🇧

[David Fothergill @DJAFothergill]

More and more countries are banning disposable vapes. 1.6m thrown away every week in the UK - each with a lithium battery! For both the environment and public health its time to ban their sale in the UK @LGAWellbeing @DHSCgovuk

[Roger Habgood @habgood]

Good point but many of the schools have apparently known about this for over a decade. It will be interesting to see where else RAAC has been used and how they cope. I wonder if Queens Kings Wellington or Taunton school have had or have the same problem.

[Barry Havenhand @BarryHavenhand]

@habgood I wonder what an individual school would have been able to do within a typical school budget to replace structural concrete, even if it was on a risk register? Just saying

[Roger Habgood @habgood]

I wonder how long the individual schools had known they had RAAC. Since putting it in perhaps ? Was it on the individual school risk registers ? Just saying.

[Kit Chapman MBE @Kit_Chapman]

Just before our children return to school, we get this RAAC story. How desperate is this? No one could invent it. How much more evidence do we need to demonstrate the rot invading the fabric of our society.

[Roger Habgood @habgood]

They have also failed the people of Taunton incurring cost and mismanaging the car parks.

[Cllr Diogo Rodrigues @CllrDiogo]

Lib Dem failure costing thousands of pounds 👇🏽