Filtronic opens new Headquarters & Manufacturing Facility

Filtronic open their new facility in the North East of England picture shows: L. to R. Filtronic CEO Nat Edington, SpaceX Senior Finance Officer David Finlay, Engineering Manager Andy Tucker and Filtronic Chairman Jonathan Neale

Filtronic plc, a global leader in high-performance and high-frequency solutions for the space, defence and critical communications markets, today announces the opening of its new state-of-the-art 44,000 sq ft headquarters and manufacturing facility at NETPark, County Durham.

The purpose-built site significantly expands the company’s production capacity, doubling Filtronic’s UK manufacturing footprint and providing a six-fold increase in cleanroom space. In total, the expanded infrastructure gives Filtronic the capacity to support over £200 million in annual revenue, cementing Filtronic’s position as the UK’s leading vertically integrated producer of mission-critical high frequency technologies used across satellite communications, space systems and defence programmes.

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