The ATI has welcomed today’s announcement from ZeroAvia of a major new manufacturing facility in Scotland for production of its hydrogen-electric powertrains.
ZeroAvia’s Hydrogen Centre of Excellence will support a range of manufacturing operations relating to powertrain production and testing and will also be the company’s primary location for production of advanced high temperature PEM (HTPEM) fuel cell stacks and supporting systems.
The new centre, supported by Scottish Enterprise, will be based at the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS), close to Glasgow Airport in Renfrewshire, and will create 350 highly-skilled jobs.
Today’s announcement was made possible by the early stage support for ZeroAvia’s research projects by the ATI Programme. The HyFlyer and HyFlyer II projects not only led to the history-making first flight of its 19-seat Dornier 228 testbed aircraft, but also helped unlock a further $250m of private investment into the company’s future.
Projects such as these are a critical stepping stone toward the ATI’s vision of the largescale hydrogen-powered aircraft that were identified in FlyZero.
“ZeroAvia’s new facility in Scotland is fantastic news for the whole UK,” said Gary Elliott, CEO of the ATI. “It shows how investment in aerospace research, made possible by support from the ATI Programme, is delivering jobs and growth right across the country, unlocking private investment and helping address climate change.”
Discover more on the ZeroAvia website.