Motion control systems Moog Controls
Moog targets complete control
Moog is an important member of the aerospace supply chain manufacturing key equipment for the OEMs
Next time you fly, consider the electro-mechanical wizardry at work behind the pilot’s flight deck that keeps your aircraft on course. Servo valves and manifolds for flight control systems make up an important part of a broad portfolio of precision aerospace and industry components made by Moog Controls, based in Tewkesbury.
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of the great things about British manufacturing is its discrete strengths – most ordinary consumers are blissfully unaware of many of the highly engineered products that we are so good at making behind the scenes. Certain names in UK aerospace are familiar to many: Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Cobham and Goodrich among them, but the companies that supply these primes with sophisticated components that help operate aircraft control systems receive much less press. A layman might expect that many of the smaller electro-mechanical components used by these Tier 1 and 2 companies are bought in from China or India. But look deeper into the UK aerospace sector, and you find companies like Moog in Tewkesbury; foreign-owned firms manufacturing in the UK as part of efficient internal and external supply chains to these big primes. Moog, a US-owned company manufacturing in Gloucestershire, makes a wide portfolio of advanced products, where its business is split about 70% in aerospace and 30% in the industrial divisions – motion control systems for applications like plastics, metal forming, power generation and motor sport. While Moog, which employs 370 staff at Tewkesbury, has been in the UK for 40 years, as a global company operating in 26 countries with volume production in the Philippines, the
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