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Gestamp Tallent Plant Director Peter Gallone (right)
and new Pressing Plant Manager Graham Moore
outside the firm’s new £11m extension.
A bird’s eye view of Gestamp Talent’s new
extension and state-of-the-art presses.
30-YEAR
VISION
Gestamp Tallent’s latest £11m
investment aims to ensure car
part manufacturing in Newton
Aycliffe for decades to come.
Martin Walker finds out more...
Gestamp Tallent’s latest investment in
Newton Aycliffe has been developed by one
of our own.
Graham Moore left Greenfield School in
1991 and joined the then Tallent Engineering
as an Apprentice Maintenance Technician.
Now Graham has been tasked with leading
his team to manage the firm’s new-look
press shop after a £11m investment.
You can’t miss Gestamp Tallent’s latest
development - a 17-metre high extension
to what was the oldest part of its Aycliffe
Business Park site.
With an extra 3,900 square metres of
floor space and 75 metres in length, the
car chassis maker now boasts a huge press
shop which is 250 metres in length and has
an eye-boggling volumetric size of 1.8 million
cubic metres.
It is also home to two new state-of-the-art
presses – costing £6.2m between them which will improve efficiency and output.
Production within the new part of Plant 1
has alre Y H