£3m contract wins help to secure jobs in Dundee

Component repair firm employs 80 staff at Baldovie

A Dundee firm said new contract wins worth £3 million will help to “significantly protect” its workforce of 80 staff.

ATL Turbine Services, a turbine component repair company based at Baldovie Industrial Estate, said one of its major customers had extended its contract for three years.

It has also won work for a European subsidiary of a major international OEM, which will help keep a vital fleet of aircraft operational for years to come.

Chief executive Dale Harris said: “The contracts amount to £3m for the next three years and that’s a really good base level of work to have and will be a big part of keeping the jobs in Dundee.

“It is most pleasing to have the contract extension as that shows we are doing well at keeping customers happy.”

ATL deals in late life aero and light industrial turbines, refurbishing parts to have the same integrity and durability as new parts, which can be hard to source.

Among its key customers is RollsRoyce whose struggles during the Covid-19 period have been well documented, with up to 9,000 staff set to be made redundant.

However, as the firm’s civil aerospace division has come under pressure, the defence side of the business has remained strong.

“All the work we are doing for Rolls is military work and that hasn’t been interrupted at all,” Mr Harris said.

“We’ve got a good balance in our portfolio of customers between the industrial side, a little bit of civil aero and the military side.

“Because of where we place ourselves in the market, at late life, the engines are used on older aircraft which aren’t used for passengers any more, they’re used for freight. All the freight is still flying and working hard.”

Mr Harris said ATL – classed as an essential business – was only out of