The Boeing Co. held a ceremony in South Carolina Friday after placing the last steel beam on a new facility to fabricate interiors for the 787 Dreamliner.
The beam was signed by hundreds of construction workers and Boeing employees.
“This is an exciting day for fabrication as it puts us one step closer to producing innovative 787 interiors for the South Carolina final assembly and delivery team,” Lane Ballard, director of the Interiors Responsibility Center, said in a statement.
The 300,000-square-foot facility, located in the Palmetto Commerce Park in North Charleston, is about 10 miles from the Boeing South Carolina site.
It will be used to make stowbins, closets, partitions, class dividers, floor-mounted stowbins used by flight attendants, overhead flight crew rests, overhead flight attendant crew rests, video-control stations and attendant modules.
The proximity of the two facilities will help improve the efficiency of the final assembly and delivery process in South Carolina, the company said in the statement.
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