Boeing to build tail part for 787 in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Aircraft maker Boeing Co. announced Friday it will expand manufacturing operations in Utah by opening a third factory in the Salt Lake City area to fabricate a tail piece for the Boeing 787.
Boeing is taking over a factory originally built by KraftMaid Cabinetry in the Salt Lake suburb of West Jordan.
Boeing has 575 employees in Utah and said it will add 100, paying factory wages that state officials said will average $65,000 a year.
Hiring will begin immediately for engineers and project managers, and Boeing will add production workers after converting the KraftMaid factory into a production facility for carbon-fiber aircraft parts, said Craig Trewet, director of Boeing Salt Lake.
Chicago-based Boeing assembles the 787 in Seattle and has had operations in Utah for 25 years. It makes flight deck parts, has a paint shop and assembles the 787's vertical tail fin at other locations near Salt Lake's airport. In West Jordan, Boeing will make horizontal stabilizers for the aircraft's tail.
"The site we've chosen is an ideal location to add composite manufacturing capability focused on Boeing's key business strategies," said Ross Bogue, vice president and general manager of Boeing Fabrication. "This new facility will provide a real competitive advantage in our supply chain."
Boeing said it will take two years to redesign the 850,000-square-foot factory.
Gov. Gary Herbert joined company officials Friday for the announcement and has authorized tax incentives and other benefits for Boeing's expansion.
The company will be entitled to a 20-percent rebate on payroll, income and sales taxes at the new location for a maximum incentive of $1.3 million over 10 years, said Michael Sullivan, a spokesman for the Governor's Office of Economic Development.
In addition, Utah offered Boeing up to $225,000 in matching funds to train new manufacturing workers.
That makes it more likely that Boeing will hire Utah residents rather than bring in workers from other locations, Sullivan said.
Boeing is taking over a factory originally built by KraftMaid Cabinetry in the Salt Lake suburb of West Jordan.
Boeing has 575 employees in Utah and said it will add 100, paying factory wages that state officials said will average $65,000 a year.
Hiring will begin immediately for engineers and project managers, and Boeing will add production workers after converting the KraftMaid factory into a production facility for carbon-fiber aircraft parts, said Craig Trewet, director of Boeing Salt Lake.
Chicago-based Boeing assembles the 787 in Seattle and has had operations in Utah for 25 years. It makes flight deck parts, has a paint shop and assembles the 787's vertical tail fin at other locations near Salt Lake's airport. In West Jordan, Boeing will make horizontal stabilizers for the aircraft's tail.
"The site we've chosen is an ideal location to add composite manufacturing capability focused on Boeing's key business strategies," said Ross Bogue, vice president and general manager of Boeing Fabrication. "This new facility will provide a real competitive advantage in our supply chain."
Boeing said it will take two years to redesign the 850,000-square-foot factory.
Gov. Gary Herbert joined company officials Friday for the announcement and has authorized tax incentives and other benefits for Boeing's expansion.
The company will be entitled to a 20-percent rebate on payroll, income and sales taxes at the new location for a maximum incentive of $1.3 million over 10 years, said Michael Sullivan, a spokesman for the Governor's Office of Economic Development.
In addition, Utah offered Boeing up to $225,000 in matching funds to train new manufacturing workers.
That makes it more likely that Boeing will hire Utah residents rather than bring in workers from other locations, Sullivan said.
scychan 0 pts
Old Boeing was very honest and fair to its employees.But the new McBoeing though....is
not the same,they only give their workers a piece of carrot stick and expect them to work
to dead without benefits.Now,the management play more politics and dirty tricks to its
workers....when contract is up,and they'll tell the workers that they are moving somewhere
else....someday,they will use the same old tricks to S.C. when they get to that point......!
Union members you should be grateful that you have a job, act like brats and Boeing will take away what they gave you. Â
It's not even"The Writing on the Wall" anymore. Boeing has made it very clear the direction their taking. Unions may as well take as much as you can get from the company while they're still here because it isn't going to make any difference now. It wont be long now before plants start closing in Seattle.
Slowly Boeing is gonna move out of "Unionville" Washington. Thanks Unions for giving Boeing a reason to look elsewhere to produce its products. How's that foot feeling??
Actually this is the production that was originally at Alenia in Italy for the 787-8...There were some significant production issues there . I suspect (even if the article is not clear) that this is the horizontal stabilizer for the 787-9.
 @Woodswalker I'll make a call to find out if this is a Boeing battery issue. Thanks for the heads up.
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 @Seahawker If Boeing were such a fair and honest employer, there would be no need for unions. It is only when a corporation practices undercutting, take-aways and inhuman work requirements that workers feel the need to unionize.
I cite Costco as an example.
 @Glassman So Boeing doesn't pay it's employees good, along with an AWSOME Benefits package ,plus bonuses????? I guess everyone at Boeing losses money every year they work at the Company then in your eyes???? I personally know 8 people who work and Boeing and some of them make 6 figure a year wages, so don't tell me Boeing doesn't pay well.  so whats unfair and dishonest about that????
 @Glassman  @Seahawker What is wrong with the way Costco treats its employees ? Having worked retail Costco has better service,more people on the floor than union places. maybe because they don't have to pay extortion and blackmail to the unions . .Â