Visit of His Royal Highness Duke of York to Aycliffe Plant

TKA Tallent Chassis was extremely pleased to host a successful visit by the His Royal Highness Duke of York in his capacity of Trade and Industry representative on 3 May 2006.

HRH Duke of York received a plant tour of the some of main manufacturing areas and officially opened the Prototype, Training and Development Facility. 

During the visit he spoke individually to personnel and met third year apprentices’ 19-year-old Gareth Hodgson from Darlington and 21 year old Russell Dodds from Northallerton.

The Prototype, Training and Development facility has been an integral part of the Company’s investment at the site to ensure that future workers have the skills that the Company needs.  

Managing Director, Simon Flunder said: 

“It was an honour to meet His Royal Highness and to have the opportunity to impress upon him how important, in a global economy, research and development and investment in training is to the long term sustainability of ThyssenKrupp Tallent Ltd.”