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Filtronic Filtronic has sold its microchip factory in Newton Aycliffe to RF Micro Devices of the US for £12m, securing 200 jobs and creating up to 100 new jobs. 24-Dec-2007 Filtronic is planning to sell its semiconductor factory in Newton Aycliffe to an unnamed company, casting doubt on the future of some of the 200 jobs. 04-Dec-2007 Filtronic is to shed 115 of the 319 jobs at its electronics factory in Newton Aycliffe later this year, and may sell off its semiconductor business. 26-Jun-2007 Filtronic is planning to vacate its 100,000 sq ft Saltaire headquarters and relocate all staff to its electronic components site in Shipley. 30-Jan-2007 Filtronic is to sell most of its wireless infrastructure division to Powerwave Technologies of the US for £184m, and has also announced plans to spend £45m expanding its semiconductor factory in Newton Aycliffe. 13-Jun-2006 Filtronic is to sell its LK Products handset antennae division to Technitrol of the US for £47m. 10-Aug-2005 Filtronic is in negotiations to sell its handset antennae division for an estimated £50m. 06-Jun-2005 Filtronic Comtek is to shed up to 270 jobs at its electronic components plant in Bradford, in order to transfer some production to China. 26-Jan-2005 Filtronic is to recruit a further 50 staff at its electronics plant in Newton Aycliffe, to add to the existing 350. 21-Sep-2004 Filtronic is to shed 84 jobs at its electronic components plant in Saltaire next month. 17-Sep-2004 Filtronic is to sell parts of its US-based electronic warfare business to Teledyne for £7m. 18-Dec-2003 Filtronic is planning to increase the workforce at its electronic components plant in Newton Aycliffe from 262 to 500 by the end of 2004. 29-Jan-2003 Filtronic is planning to create a further 90 jobs at its Newton Aycliffe electronics plant over the next year, to manufacture broadband communication products. 17-Jan-2002 Filtronic has agreed a rescue package with BAe Systems and M/A-Com of the US to save 116 jobs at its microwave technology plant in Newton Aycliffe, which will involve a shift in production from the mobile phone market to the defence sector. 31-Jul-2001 Filtronic is seeking a partner to share the cost of running its new compound semiconductor factory in Durham, where it manufactures gallium arsenide as an alternative to silicon chips. 30-Jan-2001 Filtronic is to acquire Sigtek, the US developer of high-speed digital signal processing, for an initial £13m. 24-Aug-2000 Filtronic is to raise £71m in a rights issue in order to upgrade facilities in Europe and the US, including the £13m purchase of the Fujitsu semiconductor plant in Newton Aycliffe. 03-Sep-1999 Filtronic is in negotiations to reopen the former Fujitsu microchip factory at Newton Aycliffe, where it would invest £35m and create 500 jobs. 03-Aug-1999 Filtronic is planning to build another electronic components plant at Shipley in Yorkshire, which will create 400 jobs. 23-Apr-1999 Filtronic is creating an extra 50 jobs at its Saltaire site in Bradford due to a rise in sales of mobile phone components, and it is also taking on staff at other sites around the world. 25-Jan-1999 Filtronic, the microwave engineering company, has set up an in-house university-style training scheme in conjunction with Leeds University in order to improve the skills of its own graduate engineers. 12-Oct-1998 Filtronic is acquiring LK-Products, the telecoms components company, from Nokia for £40m, and is strengthening its ties with Nokia by issuing new shares that will give the Finnish group a 7.5% stake in Filtronic. 08-Aug-1998 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008