BAE Systems, Samlesbury, is investing more than £7million in new, high-performance aluminium machining.
The new centre will be dedicated to machining light alloy Typhoon and JSF airframe details and is expected to come on line next summer.
The equipment is being supplied by DS Technologie of Germany and will replace machines that have reached the end of their useful life.
Manufacturing engineer Mark Wilson said the new facility will provide a major change in the manufacture of light alloy components for the Typhoon and JSF programmes.
"These machines use state-of-the-art, parallel kinematic technology, allied with considerable power and high spindle speeds to produce components of high quality in a greatly reduced time," he said.
The new facility consists of three high-speed, five-axis machining centres, two tilt load/unload stations and a pallet buffer store, all linked via a rail-guided vehicle to transport material.
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