Boeing picks S.Carolina from new Dreamliner plantUS aerospace giant Boeing (language) BOEING - An early system on the IBM 1130. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. has chosen the state of South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. as the location for a second production line for the troubled 787 Dreamliner long-haul long haul n. 1. A long distance: It is a long haul from New York to Los Angeles. 2. A long period of time: Over the long haul the candidates performed well. jet, the company said Wednesday. The move "will expand our production capability to meet the market demand for the airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. ," Jim Albaugh, president and chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Boeing Commercial Airplanes is a unit of The Boeing Company, based in Renton, Washington consisting of the Seattle-based former Boeing Airplane Company (the civil airliner division), as well as the Long Beach-based Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas , said in a statement. "This decision allows us to continue building on the synergies we have established in South Carolina with Boeing Charleston and Global Aeronautica," he said, the latter being a company 50-percent owned by Boeing. Boeing's South Carolina plant already assembles and installs parts of the 787 fuselage sections. Almost all Boeing planes are manufactured at its Everett plant outside Seattle, in the northwest state of Washington. Delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner -- to Japanese launch customer ANA -- is now set for late 2010, more than two years behind schedule. The company said that until the second assembly line is brought up to speed, Boeing will "establish transitional surge capability" in Everett that will be phased out once South Carolina comes online. The move to South Carolina puts employees there out of the reach of the union in Washington state that has had several contentious labor disputes in recent decades with Boeing management. 
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