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Opportunities for Employment 1996
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The information below comes from the UK Activity Report.
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The Civil Aviation Authority has recommended that a second advanced air traffic control centre should be built, at Prestwick, Strathclyde, in order to back up the centre being built at Swanwick. 24-Dec-1996 Bertrand Faure Seating of France is to set up a £12m factory to make frames for car seats in Tredegar, south Wales, creating 290 jobs. 12-Dec-1996 Benteler of Germany is to set up a £14m plant to make automotive chassis assemblies in Corby, creating 120 jobs. 12-Dec-1996 Sony is to invest £50m at its two south Wales plants, where it will centre the European production of widescreen television screens, creating up to 1,000 jobs. 07-Dec-1996 Candle Corporation Worldwide of the US is planning a £16m candle factory in Barrow, creating 260 jobs. 21-Nov-1996 Tenby Industries is to set up an electrical fittings factory in Newtown South Aston, Birmingham, creating 400 jobs. 21-Nov-1996 Orbit, the Saudi-owned satellite TV concern, is considering the relocation of its Rome headquarters to Cardiff Bay with the creation of 700 jobs. 16-Nov-1996 Align-Rite International of the US is to double production at its Bridgend plant which makes photo-masks for the semiconductor industry, by investing £11m and creating 200 jobs. 07-Nov-1996 General Nutrition Centres of the US is opening its first UK health food store in Bristol, and plans to set up 400 high street stores over the next four years. 24-Oct-1996 Denso Manufacturing is planning a £31m expansion of its car air conditioning plant in Telford, creating over 300 jobs. 24-Oct-1996 Fiamm of Italy is to build a £10.5m battery factory near Newport in south Wales, creating over 200 jobs. 14-Oct-1996 Research by The Henley Centre shows that the National Lottery will create 111,000 jobs, including 300 permanent jobs at the Lowry Museum which is being built in Salford. 10-Sep-1996 The National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham is planning a £60m expansion involving the construction of four new exhibition halls. 30-Aug-1996 Behnisch & Partners, the Stuttgart-based architects, are designing a £98m 2,300-seater centre for performing arts in Bristol, with the city council donating the land on the waterfront. 27-Aug-1996 Software City has opened in Leeds, the first of 50 software superstores planned over the next four years. 08-Aug-1996 Work has begun on the massive Bluewater retail park near Dartford in Kent, which is expected to create over 6,800 full time jobs. 17-Jul-1996 LG of South Korea is to build a £1.6bn electronics complex in Newport, south Wales, to manufacture semiconductors and television parts and create 6,100 jobs. 10-Jul-1996 The Lite-On Technology Corporation of Taiwan is to set up a £40m computer monitor factory in Lanarkshire, creating over 1,000 jobs. 06-Jul-1996 Boots is planning a further 110 small stores and out-of-town chemist stores over the next four years in a £300m investment programme. 03-Jul-1996 The government is to soon announce plans to set up a national microelectronics institute in Scotland, to improve technical training in the manufacture of semiconductors. 21-Jun-1996 Edinburgh Development and Investment has announced plans for a £100m shopping mall under Princes Street in Edinburgh. 14-Jun-1996 Sony is recruiting 250 staff at its television production plant in Pencoed, Wales. 14-Jun-1996 Showa Corp of Japan is planning a £10m plant to make car parts in Cynon Valley, Wales, creating 200 jobs. 07-Jun-1996 Copeland of the US is to build a £33m plant in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, to make compressors, creating 300 jobs. 04-Jun-1996 Shinho Electronic Telecommunications of South Korea is to build a £8.2m plant to make computer monitors in Fife, creating 280 jobs. 30-May-1996 Tenma of Japan is to expand its printer components plant near Glasgow, creating 119 jobs. 24-May-1996 Kohdensha of Japan is investing £6.5m in a circuit board factory in Dunfermline, creating 87 jobs. 24-May-1996 Softbank PSC, the provider of computer technical support, plans to expand its Watford HQ, creating over 200 jobs. 20-May-1996 Kitigawa of Japan is investing £4.5m to increase production of handling systems for machine tools at its factory in Salisbury. 06-May-1996 Heller of Germany is planning a £15m investment at its Redditch machine tool factory, creating 300 new jobs over the next five years. 30-Apr-1996 Giddings & Lewis of the US has selected its Knowsley plant on Merseyside as the European base for manufacturing a new range of tool, called the Ram machining centre, which will create 50 new jobs. 23-Apr-1996 Simple Technology, the Californian computer company, is to set up a European HQ in East Kilbride, creating 360 jobs. 19-Apr-1996 A technology-based industrial village is being proposed in Dulais Valley, south Wales, by the Dulais Valley Partnership, in order the create 900 new jobs. 17-Apr-1996 Photronics of the US is planning a £47m photomasking development in Manchester, creating 270 jobs. 26-Mar-1996 YG-1 of South Korea is planning an end-mill cutting equipment plant in Belfast, creating 230 jobs. 26-Mar-1996 A £31m conference centre to accomodate 3,000 people is being built in Glasgow, with a £10.5m contribution from the European Commission. 21-Mar-1996 Yamasaki Mazak of Japan is planning a 20% capacity increase at its Worcester machine tools plant, creating 50 extra jobs. 11-Mar-1996 Simula Automotive Safety Devices of the US is to set up a factory in Ashington to make side-impact head protection air bags, creating 180 jobs. 08-Mar-1996 Glaverbel of Belgium may set up a £50m glass plant in the UK to provide auto glass to Japanese car makers. 07-Mar-1996 QPL International of Hong Kong is planning a £230m semiconductor plant at Newport, south Wales, creating 768 jobs. 02-Mar-1996 Integrated Micro Products is investing £2.2m in a new plant at Annfield Plain, County Durham, to increase production of computer systems for the telecoms sector, creating 114 jobs. 24-Feb-1996 Halla of South Korea is to build a £17m lift truck and earth moving machinery factory at Merthyr Tydfil, creating over 300 jobs. 06-Feb-1996 Itochu of Japan is to set up a distribution centre in the west Midlands to distribute steel to the UK motor industry. 05-Feb-1996 The Welsh Development Ageny hopes to announce nine inward investment projects over the next two months, which would create 3,000 jobs. 02-Feb-1996 United Cinemas International plans to build six multiscreen cinemas over the next couple of years, creating 1,000 jobs. 30-Jan-1996 Deep Sea World is planning to build one of the world's largest aquariums in Ellesmere Port, creating 90 jobs, but the local Chester Zoo is trying to block EU funding for the project. 10-Jan-1996 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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