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Southend

Southend-on-Sea is one of the UK’s primarily seaside resorts, and also home to one of the Thames Gateway’s accessible airports. London Southend Airport is a long-established regional airport for South East Essex and the Thames Gateway. A new airport railway station providing fast and frequent train services direct to Stratford (for Docklands and Canary Wharf) and to Central London’s Liverpool Street Station will soon provide its passengers with faster door-to-door times inbound to London than most other London airports - and at lower costs.

A major commercial aircraft maintenance centre with over 50 businesses on site and a growing commercial and leisure passenger service based at Southend Airport.  Companies based there include Ipeco Holdings Ltd which designs, manufactures and supplies flight-deck seating for over 300 airlines and operators and Inflite Ltd which provides design, machining, fabrication, component repair, electrical loom manufacture, and surface treatment services, to the Aerospace and Defence Industries and has specialist aircraft maintenance facilities at the airport.

Southend-on-Sea - Ipeco

Based within the Thames Gateway at Southend-on-Sea, Ipeco is a leading group of specialised engineering businesses.  Its core activities are the manufacture of flight deck and cabin interior equipment for the aircraft market and power management products and machined components for the defence electronics and engineering industries.

With a quarter of a century's experience, Ipeco is the leading supplier of flight deck and specialist crew seating.  Its current portfolio contains over 50 models from simple compact designs for the utility aircraft market to seating applications for regional airlines, military transports, executive and long haul aircraft.  Ipeco crew seats offer the highest standards of comfort and performance.  Whilst each model is specific to a particular aircraft type and constructed to individual customer requirements, Ipeco engineering and design skills ensure cost-effective production and predictable, consistent performance.

Why come to Southend-on-Sea?

• Shortest flight distances to Europe with excellent road and rail links within the Thames Gateway
• A low cost business base for the sector with development opportunities
• Strong business services sector based in Southend on Sea with a vibrant leisure and tourism market
• A multi-million airport development scheme – including new control tower, terminal building and high quality hotel are currently being progressed to extend the range of passenger services facilitated by the new airport railway station