Anna Forrester
Boeing has leased office and laboratory space in North Charleston, South Carolina for a planned research and technology center the company plans to open within its current quarter, the Charleston Regional Business Journal reported Tuesday.
Liz Segrist writes that the future Boeing Research & Technology – South Carolina facility covers an area of 100,000 square feet at Palmetto Commerce Park and will house composite fuselage manufacturing operations.
“We’ve been in the process of redesigning our work to better meet the long-term technology needs of our business units and government R&D customers. This includes the placement of work at our technology centers,” Candy Eslinger, a spokesperson for Boeing South Carolina, told the publication in an email.
Segrist reports the company will hire up to 400 scientists, technologists, engineers and technicians both locally and from other states to work on systems installation, composite fabrication and repair, automation and chemical technologies, among other manufacturing areas.
According to the newspaper, this new BR&T center is part of the Boeing research and development segment’s restructuring plans that have resulted in new BR&T centers in Alabama, California, Missouri and Washington.
