Rolls-Royce Starts Work On Advanced Casting Fac...

21 June 2012

                      ROLLS-ROYCE STARTS WORK ON ADVANCED                       
                        CASTING FACILITY IN ROTHERHAM                          

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today began construction of a
state-of-the-art Advanced Blade Casting Facility in Rotherham. The new facility
will manufacture high technology single crystal turbine blades for large civil
aero engines and will create 150 jobs.

Business Secretary Vince Cable said: "Today is further evidence of
Rolls-Royce's strong commitment to the UK and the strength of advanced
manufacturing we have in this country. This new facility is good news not just
for Rolls-Royce and the local area but for our aerospace sector and the wider
economy too. It provides a good example of business and Government working
together to deliver growth."

Mike Mosley, Rolls-Royce, Executive Vice President - Turbines said:
"Rolls-Royce invests in world class technology and infrastructure to expand the
scale and efficiency of our operations and to deliver our promises to our
customers. In the last five years we have invested over £950 million on
infrastructure in the UK alone. The Advanced Blade Casting Facility will use
cutting edge manufacturing techniques to produce single crystal turbine blades,
which play a critical role in jet engines and must withstand incredibly harsh
conditions."

The Advanced Blade Casting Facility is expected to produce its first blades in
late 2014, with the facility capable of manufacturing 100,000 blades per year
when fully operational. Each blade will be cast to form a single crystal of
super alloy, making it extremely strong and able to resist the intense heat
inside a jet engine.

The 14,000 m2 facility will be one of the most advanced blade casting
facilities in the world, featuring groundbreaking manufacturing techniques such
as 3D structured light for geometry inspection.

The single crystal turbine blade is a critical component of the jet engine and
there are over 65 in every Trent engine. One single crystal turbine blade
extracts around 1000 horsepower from the gas flow towards the rear of the
engine, which is equivalent to the power of an F1 racing car, to drive the
engine's compressors.

Single crystal turbine blades operate in temperatures up to 200 degrees above
the melting point of their alloy and sit in a disc that rotates at more than
12,000 rpm. This means that the centrifugal force exerted on a blade is
equivalent to the weight of a London bus.

Notes to Editors:

1. Rolls-Royce is a world-leading provider of power systems and services for
use on land, at sea and in the air, and has established a strong position in
global markets - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy.

2. As a result of this strategy, Rolls-Royce has a broad customer base
comprising more than 500 airlines, 4,000 corporate and utility aircraft and
helicopter operators, 160 armed forces, more than 4,000 marine customers,
including 70 navies, and energy customers in more than 80 countries.

3. Annual underlying revenues were £11.3 billion in 2011, of which more
than half came from the provision of services. The firm and announced order
book stood at £62.2 billion at 31 December 2011, providing visibility of future
levels of activity.

4. Rolls-Royce employs more than 40,000 people in offices,
manufacturing and service facilities in over 50 countries. Over 11,000 of these
employees are engineers.

5.In 2011, Rolls-Royce invested £908 million on research and
development, two thirds of which had the objective of further improving the
environmental performance of its products, in particular reducing emissions.

6. Rolls-Royce supports a global network of 28 University Technology
Centres, which connect the company's engineers with the forefront of scientific
research.

7.The Group has a strong commitment to apprentice and graduate
recruitment and to further developing employee skills.

For further information, please contact:

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