Xtrac welcome Prime Minister to open factory extension

Xtrac welcomed the UK Prime Minister Theresa May on 8th November 2018 to open its new manufacturing facility extension that will ultimately represent a £22 million investment in UK manufacturing. The Prime Minister's visit to Xtrac took place ahead of the company co-hosting a Festival of Engineering involving budding engineers from schools across West Berkshire and North West Hampshire.

Peter Digby, president of Xtrac, showed the Prime Minister around the company's premises, which operates 24 hours a day to create advanced gearboxes used by motorsport teams around the world and in hybrid and electric high-performance road cars.

The Prime Minister said: "Xtrac is a great example of how providing high quality apprenticeship programmes can help people to go on to have long-term and successful careers within the company that trained them. I am very pleased to be able to open this new facility which I hope will remain a leader in the manufacturing industry and inspire the next generation of engineers."

Xtrac has won numerous awards for its apprenticeship and undergraduate training programmes with one in seven (14%) of its 350 employees having started with the company as apprentices or undergraduates. Indeed, the company's first ever apprentice Simon Short who qualified 25 years ago remains with the company, holding a senior role in Xtrac's North American operations. 

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