ABCF will employ 150, Rolls-Royce announced. The Advanced Blade Casting Facility’s (ABCF) uses some manufacturing methods developed by Rolls-Royce at the Manufacturing Technology Centre, an industrial research center at Ansty, backed by three universities and numerous manufacturing firms. The estimated $170-million project in Rotherham, England, was started in 2012, and will be fully operational by 2017. Rolls-Royce plc has opened a new investment-casting foundry to produce over 100,000 single-crystal turbine blades per year, in support of its Trent aircraft engine product line. There are 182 turbine high-pressure and intermediate-pressure turbine blades in each engine. The Rolls-Royce Trent XWB is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine used exclusively for the Airbus A350XWB, a widebody aircraft.
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