EVERETT — Aerospace supplier MTorres is building a research and design facility here to support the Spanish company’s work on the Boeing 777X’s composite-material wings.
The MTorres Innovation Center for Advanced Manufacturing is slated to open in Everett in late 2016, the company said in a news release. The company did not disclose the building’s location.
MTorres said it plans to hire new employees to support planned growth in Washington. It did not say how many it expects to hire.
Work at the facility will focus on finding new and better ways of making things using composite materials, automation and other advanced manufacturing technologies. MTorres is best known for making machines that place carbon-fiber tape for composite material manufacturing.
Boeing gave the company three large contracts for work on the 777X’s composite material wings, which Boeing plans to make at a new Everett facility adjacent to Paine Field.
Two of the MTorres contracts are for automated equipment and related tools used in assembling key structural pieces of the 777X wing — the spar and stringers. MTorres is to design, make, install and support the machines and tooling.
The third contract is for automated fiber placement machines that will be used to make the wing stringers using carbon-fiber composite material.
Pacifica Engineering, an MTorres subsidiary, plans to move its business operations to the new building. It currently has offices in Bothell and at Paine Field.
MTorres has more than 700 employees, including 115 in Washington.
Dan Catchpole: 425-339-3454; dcatchpole@heraldnet.com; Twitter: @dcatchpole.
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