EDM opens new £1.3m facility

EDM, a leading global provider of training simulators to the civil aviation and defence sectors, and the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, have opened EDM’s new £1.3m facility. Mayor Burnham officially cut the ribbon to celebrate the formal start of operations at the 20,000 ft² manufacturing facility at EDM’s headquarters in Newton Heath, east Manchester.
The new structure has been built to meet the demands of the company’s rapidly increasing order book with the company doubling in size since 2013, posting revenues of over £24m in 2016. Housing 50 employees, EDM’s new purpose-built facility sits adjacent to its existing 100,000 ft² site and provides all the resources necessary to enable the company to manufacture its full range of training simulators for defence and civil aviation customers. In the past year EDM has announced orders from KLM, China Southern Airlines, S7 Airlines and Jet2.com and counts Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and Thales amongst its defence client base. EDM has also just launched a new range of virtual reality training simulators to the airline industry and expects to win its first order with a major airline later this year.