MP Steve Barclay pays Chatteris firm a fact finding visit

Local MP Steve Barclay took a ‘fascinating’ tour of a high tech company which relocated to Fenland three years ago.

The Health Minister was shown round Aerotron Composites’ factory in Chatteris which manufactures bespoke parts for the aerospace and defence industrie.

The firm, which moved to Chatteris in 2019, is celebrating 50 years and is now a global group of companies.

The team produces, designs, develops, engineers and manufactures complex composite components.

Works are underway on new, bespoke state-of-the-art facilities for composite maintenance repair and later this year the ground will be broken on a 100,000 sqft warehouse and production buildings on the campus in Chatteris.

Mr Barclay said: “There are some fabulous apprenticeship programme opportunities bringing skills to young people across the region. This is a real success story within the constituency, more than doubling the number of staff over the Covid period and proving to be one of the leading companies in the aerospace and defence industries.

“Many thanks to director Andrew Leslie and the team who showed me around.”