Space and aerospace supply chain

West Yorkshire has the largest manufacturing workforce of any city region in the UK

With over 140,000 people employed by over 7,000 manufacturing businesses West Yorkshire has the largest manufacturing workforce of any city region in the UK.

Our advanced manufacturing sector supplies highly engineered components across a diverse range of high value, precision led sectors including space, with manufacturers such as Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Space-X and One Web looking to West Yorkshire to design, engineer and manufacture mission critical components for satellite and terrestrial based operations.

Find out more about some of the great companies in our Space and aerospace supply chain industry.