Posted on 07/30/2014 10:09:36 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
Boeing will build the 787-10 Dreamliner exclusively in North Charleston, the Chicago-based aerospace giant announced Wednesday.
The 787-10 is the largest of the Dreamliner family and the announcement of its construction at the North Charleston site has been expected for months.
Design of the 787-10 is underway in Everett, with final assembly of the first 787-10 scheduled to begin in South Carolina in 2017.
"We looked at all our options and found the most efficient and effective solution is to build the 787-10 at Boeing South Carolina," said Larry Loftis, vice president and general manager, 787 program, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "This will allow us to balance 787 production across the North Charleston and Everett sites as we increase production rates. We're happy with our growth and success in South Carolina, and the continued success at both sites gives us confidence in our plan going forward."
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I tend to think Boeing is very slowly moving away from Seattle.
Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights.
They moved their HQ to Chicago.
The Boeing bashing stories on yahoo’s website begin in 3...2...1
I now see a pattern-:
Detroit: Tax the auto companies-they move as many
plants as possible-
Connecticut: Firearms companies fleeing Taxes AND Regulation
Minnesota- Largest “merger “ in years- Medtronic
Now moving to Ireland -$42 Billion company
First year tax savings- 4.5 $billion!
(fleeing Minnesota’s and feds high taxes)
(when O’bummer care gets rolling with medical
device taxes - Watch Out!)
And now Boeing- pprobably because of military and govt. contracts -they cannot relocate over seas- but they can flee their liberal/communist states
I didn’t verify the sources provided, but here’s from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner#Manufacturing_and_suppliers
“Subcontracted assemblies included wing manufacture (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan, central wing box)[34] horizontal stabilizers (Alenia Aeronautica, Italy; Korea Aerospace Industries, South Korea);[35] fuselage sections (Global Aeronautica, Italy; Boeing, North Charleston, US; Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Japan; Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita, US; Korean Air, South Korea);[36][37][38] passenger doors (Latécoère, France); cargo doors, access doors, and crew escape door (Saab AB, Sweden); software development (HCL Enterprise India);[39] floor beams (TAL Manufacturing Solutions Limited, India);[40][41] wiring (Labinal, France);[42] wing-tips, flap support fairings, wheel well bulkhead, and longerons (Korean Air, South Korea);[43] landing gear (Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, UK/France);[44][45] and power distribution and management systems, air conditioning packs (Hamilton Sundstrand, Connecticut, US).[42][46] Boeing is considering bringing construction of the 787-9 tail in house; the tail of the 787-8 is currently made by Alenia.[47]”
Their original reasons for being there (cheap and abundant hydro-electrical power for smelting aluminum with Alcoa not far away) has been effectively destroyed by the environmental left.
Boeing likely has the world’s worst supply chain.
That was because the then CEO’s wife did not wnt to move to Seattle and away from her family and friends. The whole, to be closer to their biggest customer, United, was bullshit.
William Boeing was heavily involved in Timber operations prior to getting into the plane business.
The dams came well after he started what is now Boeing. Boeing was startd in Seattle because that’s where he lived at the time.
I think the reason why the 787-10 is being built at Charleston, SC is simple: Boeing has no more space to expand at Paine Field in Everett, WA—especially once the 777-8 and 777-9 production starts in a few years.
You don’t need to move across the country to find more space, but it makes a convenient excuse to get away from the idiot unions and anti-business political climate in Washington State.
Fabian Captalists?
I so want to fly on one of those planes!
How long before they merge with a bike repair shop in Ireland and become an offshore corp?
Not true.
Boeing has the world’s most complex supply chain, and the supply chain is interlinked with their customer base, which makes it more complex.
This entanglement between suppliers and customers (sovereign nations)has caused this complexity. The answer to this was the 787. Contrary to popular belief, the experiment has been successful.
Countries that thought if Boeing (the Americans) could make a heavy commercial aircraft, then certainly they could too have been set straight. Boeing has burned through some cash acquiring key suppliers, its true, but the idea that the Chinese or Russians would suddenly start competing with a heavy passenger jet that people would actually trust is dead.
They have the most sophisticated supply chain management infrastructure on the planet. It is state of the art, right down to monitoring seismology, weather, pestilence, or political disruptions and routing their supply chain around them within minutes.
Only Wal-Mart has something that even comes close, and it isn’t close.
I was expecting such a post. During World War II, Boeing would not have manufactured all those aluminum planes in Seattle had their not been cheap power and therefore plentiful aluminum at low cost. IMHO, preparations for war was the reason the Grand Coulee Dam was built and scaled as it was. That area produced a huge fraction of the nation's aluminum.
Cheap electricity and cheap aluminum are certainly good reasons for siting an airplane manufacturing facility in the Seattle area, but Boeing had no reason to think of that when he first started his company in Seattle.
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