TRB LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity. Lotus Cars has announced that its steel fabrication and lightweight structures businesses will be brought together into one new, larger operation at Hurricane Way, Norwich. The investment from Lotus, which has its headquarters and sports car manufacturing 10 miles away in Hethel, Norfolk, is also set to create up to 125 new jobs. Lotus Cars said its steel fabrication and lightweight structures manufacturing would now take place at a new facility in Norwich. The factories where this currently takes place, in Norwich. Welcome to Lotus Lightweight Structures. Lotus Lightweight Structures develops and manufactures bonded, lightweight structures and frames with significant expertise in automotive body assemblies for niche sports cars Since 1999 over 70,000 bonded vehicle frames have been produced at Lotus Lightweight Structures Worcester with no process quality failures on the road. Led by Lotus, it is targeting the acceleration of and innovation behind new lightweight structures for next-generation BEVs. Incorporating cutting-edge UK-based engineering and digital manufacturing expertise, LEVA will be a showcase for pioneering new BEV chassis and powertrain concepts.

Group Lotus has announced the creation of Lotus Lightweight Structures, following the acquisition of privately held Holden Lightweight Structures Limited (formerly part of Hydro Aluminium) today.

Lotus Lightweight Structures, which employs 120 skilled engineers, technicians and sales staff, will be based at the former Holden Lightweight Structures Limited site in Worcester, UK and will continue to manufacture light weight aluminium and composite structures and components for its 'extensive client base'. Casper w765s wifi drivers.

Lotus Lightweight Structures will continue to assemble the Lotus Elise, Exige and Europa aluminium chassis as well as the all new chassis for the yet to be launched Lotus Project Eagle.

Lotus says the strategic acquisition of Holden Lightweight Structures Limited and the subsequent creation of Lotus Lightweight Structures enables Lotus to:

• Create, adapt and change its range of products quickly and effectively, catering for changing global customer demands.
• Provide an additional in house manufacturing facility.
• Add an additional manufacturing solution for Lotus Engineering's global client base, providing lightweight aluminium and composite vehicle components and structures.

Mike Kimberley, Chief Executive of Group Lotus plc, 'I am delighted to announce the creation of Lotus Lightweight Structures following the strategic acquisition of Holden Lightweight Structures Limited. With this facility, we will continue to expand and lead the world in lightweight vehicle research, development and production to help our global client base find ways to reduce the weight and cost from their vehicles.

'Weight reduction is one of the most attainable ways to lowering CO2 emissions in vehicles today, as well as improving fuel economy and performance, and we have a duty to share our technology with the world's car makers for everyone's long-term benefit.

'Lotus Lightweight Structures provides additional facilities, capabilities and expertise to the Lotus Manufacturing portfolio. The Worcester facility, and dedicated team, complements our Hethel Headquarters and does not substitute any of the operations in Norfolk, but instead enables our strategic global expansion programme to proceed to plan.

'We are now just ten weeks from the unveiling of the next all new Lotus, codenamed Project Eagle at the British Motorshow, and we are working hard to bring this fabulous 2+2 to the market in the Spring of 2009. The Project Eagle chassis structure will be the first product from our new Lotus Lightweight Structures facility. We look forward to increasing our support to customers, clients and new ecologically driven projects worldwide.'

Lotus Cars has announced that its steel fabrication and lightweight structures businesses will be brought together into one new, larger operation at Hurricane Way, Norwich.

The investment from Lotus, which has its headquarters and sports car manufacturing 10 miles away in Hethel, Norfolk, is also set to create up to 125 new jobs.

The 12,300 m² Hurricane Way factory will be converted to a new high tech sub-assembly facility to house manufacturing of the aluminium extruded and bonded aluminium chassis for the Evora, Exige and Elise Lotus sportscars, along with manufacturing of aluminium components for other global car companies. The facility will also house the steel welding and fabrication of sub-frames, suspension components and other key parts for Lotus cars.

Lotus has announced it will create an all-new sub-assembly manufacturing facility in Norwich that will create up to 125 new jobs / Picture: Lotus

The move will bring together Lotus’ existing steel fabrication factory at Vulcan Road, Norwich and its lightweight structures unit, which is currently situated in Worcester.

As Lotus Cars’ expansion continues under new ownership since 2017, the company has outgrown its existing facilities, and by moving into one, combined new location, the company will take the opportunity to further upgrade machinery and tooling in readiness for new Lotus sportscars to be launched in the coming years.

David Hewitt, executive director of operations, Lotus Cars, said: “By bringing the aluminium chassis and steel sub-assembly manufacturing businesses together into one facility, we can further improve upon efficiencies and productivity for Lotus manufacturing. Being located close to Lotus’ HQ in Hethel, Norfolk where all Lotus cars are assembled, will also benefit the business as we expand further into the future.”

New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (which works with businesses, local authority partners and education institutions in Norfolk and Suffolk) and Norwich City Council helped secure the move.

Chris Starkie, chief executive of New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, added: “We are delighted to have helped Lotus complete this deal to develop a new production facility in Norwich. It underlines the commitment of this globally-recognised brand to the county with which it is synonymous, and reinforces our region as a centre of excellence in low volume, high-tech manufacturing.

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“The New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership will also be supporting a training programme aimed at upskilling existing staff and providing technical apprenticeships, ensuring this region has the skills that are needed in its key sectors.”

The new facility will manufacture aluminium extruded and bonded aluminium chassis for the Evora, Exige and Elise Lotus sportscars / Picture: Lotus

Alan Waters, leader of Norwich City Council Ukg rhymes video. , said: “Lotus is a truly iconic brand, all over the world. But here in Norwich, and the county as a whole, we’ve long enjoyed a sense of local pride and ownership thanks to the business being based in different parts of the region for many years.

“We’re delighted the company has shown its continued and deepening commitment to Norwich by choosing the Hurricane Way site as a new base for the high-tech manufacturing element of the business. The potential of dozens of new jobs in the pipeline also comes at a particularly welcome time as we continue to grapple with the effects of the pandemic. We very much look forward to continuing to work with Lotus as the new facility gets up and running.”

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Lotus will relocate from its current lightweight structures facility in Worcester during May 2021. Worcestershire-based staff will be offered the opportunity to continue their roles in Norwich, where the company is recruiting for both the new Hurricane Way facility and Hethel HQ.

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