12 Dec 2011 Last updated at 06:15 ET

A brand brand brand brand new £12m sequence to supply automobile giant General Motors (GM) with parts will see a Powys company stand in the workforce.

Welshpool-based Cobra UK has won a stipulate to yield bucket space covers for the Vauxhall Astra, which is done at a plant in Cheshire.

The expansion will emanate 49 jobs, receiving the workforce to scarcely 100.

It follows another vital order, value £56m, to trade parts to Thailand, Brazil and Indonesia, which was voiced in June.

Cobra UK also reserve Bentley, Volvo and Audi with trim products trimming from bucket space covers and step plates to object blinds.

It has also branched out into the aerospace industry and is building a antecedent lightweight aircraft seat.

The association has bounced behind given the fall of MG Rover in 2005 saw it remove 90% of the sales.

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It is quite good headlines that Vauxhall is actively seeking to source reserve form the UK and have recognized Cobra as a vital supplier”

End Quote Gary Seale Cobra UK’s handling director

Gary Seale, Cobra UK’s handling director, pronounced he was delighted.

“We have valid that we consistently furnish the tall qualities compulsory by the European automotive industry and this is a genuine boost for Wales as a whole.

“It is quite great headlines that Vauxhall is actively looking to source reserve form the UK and have recognized Cobra as a vital supplier.”

Bill Parfitt, authority of GM UK and Vauxhall Motors, pronounced Vauxhall was penetrating to pull for brand brand brand brand new commercial operation with UK suppliers, and GM globally was increasingly wakeful of the great intensity in the country.

GM pronounced from next year Cobra would furnish components for the plant in Ellesmere Port where the Astra Sports Tourer was built for the European market.

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies welcomed the news.

“It’s also great headlines that Vauxhall UK has placed such an critical sequence with a Wales-based manufacturing business,” he said.

“Today’s headlines is a very welcome Christmas benefaction for Welshpool.”

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