Boeing

BOEING: The future

Groundbreaking symbolic of great changes ahead

Boeing Co.'s transformational influence on the Lowcountry will start with a mound of dirt today but have an immeasurable impact on generations to come. Read More

Boeing breaks ground for historic North Charleston plant

Work on Boeing Co.’s massive 787 Dreamliner plant got underway with a groundbreaking ceremony today that was attended by dozens of elected officials and hundreds of Boeing employees. Read More

Boeing schedules ground-breaking ceremony

Boeing Co. has scheduled a ground-breaking ceremony for its North Charleston 787 assembly plant. Read More

Operation plant-rescue

C of C botanist hoping to save trees, flowers at site of new Boeing factory

Long before the Boeing Co.'s decision last week to build its second Dreamliner factory near the Charleston International Airport, before Vought Aircraft Industries and Global Aeronautica opened their fuselage plants nearby and even before that whole area fell under post-Sept. 11 security restrictions, a College of Charleston botanist traipsed through the woods back there and photographed a flower. Read More

Boeing deal: Details to be kept quiet

'One year gives companies time to lay ... groundwork'

Politicians and other state officials privately crafted a $450 million incentive deal to land Boeing Co. on the promise of thousands of jobs and a multibillion-dollar economic impact, but the details of that deal could be kept from public view for the next year. Read More

One cartoonist's view of Boeing's move to S.C.

David Horsey's cartoon published in the Nov. 2 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has received mixed reactions. Read More

Bringing Boeing to S.C. The Art of the Deal

How political rivals, tenacious pursuit, ironclad silence and a little bit of luck produced a monumental victory

This momentous scene -- state leaders hugging and crying as Gov. Mark Sanford signed with 10 commemorative pens the legislation that landed Boeing's plant in North Charleston -- came only after six years of patient courtship. Boeing had considered locating its first 787 Dreamliner assembly line on that chunk of property near Charleston International Airport in 2003. Read More

Experts: Boeing move a message to unions

Boeing's decision to open a second assembly line for its 787 jetliner in North Charleston is another blow for organized labor, experts say, signaling that major manufacturers are increasingly willing to look for nonunion work forces during a time of economic stress. Read More

Boeing jobs: Suppliers likely to relocate

‘... A good start to an aerospace cluster'

COLUMBIA — Thousands of jobs are expected in the vapor trail that follows the arrival of a new Boeing assembly plant in North Charleston. Because the Chicago-based aircraft maker keeps a lean inventory, industry experts said suppliers will need to locate in South Carolina for fast shipments. Read More

Pulling together on Boeing incentive deal

Political foes put aside differences, join forces to lure aviation giant

For at least a little while, Boeing has made South Carolina's caustic political divisions disappear. An emotional Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor choked back tears Friday surrounded by dozens of South Carolina's elected leaders. Read More

Incentive insight

Lawmakers did not discuss a price tag for the Boeing incentives, but the proposed five-part legislation includes sales-tax incentives that would exempt fuel used in test flights and flights to transfer aircraft between plants. Read More

Tough break for Everett may spur union to retool relationship with Boeing

EVERETT, Wash. -- Matt Gettmann began working in finance at Boeing Co. last year, and it wasn't long before he found himself watching, stunned, as union members prepared for what became an eight-week strike. Read More

Sanford signs incentive package for Boeing

Boeing's decision to land a new aircraft assembly plant in South Carolina should mean thousands of jobs beyond the plant walls. Read More

SANFORD: Deal could help him keep job, but legacy still in doubt

Boeing is coming: Now what?

COLUMBIA -- When history writes Gov. Mark Sanford's legacy, will it begin with Argentina or Boeing? Read More

Added traffic could be biggest challenge

Boeing's new manufacturing plant promises to add thousands of vehicles a day to the Lowcountry's biggest crossroads, an intersection of interstates that already slows to a crawl at rush hour. Read More