Today’s newspaper, The State,
announced the first new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, to come off our SC assembly line
in Charleston. It is a great achievement for us, and maybe
the most significant since the civil war started – also in Charleston. Reconstruction has been slow,
about 160 years?
But, we have finally entered
(or tiptoed into) the industrial age here in Carolina.
A 750,000 sq. foot assembly plant with 6,000 workers, building a product
that will go all over the world. That is a significant turn-around from purely
tourism economy. Boeing has 854 orders
for the plane, the fastest selling plane in their history.
Plane sells for $193
million. We got it up and running here
in 13 months. 80% of the workers and
materials used in building the plant came from SC.
A good side-story here is
how far the Green Movement has come in the past few years. The roof of
this plant has the largest solar installation in the South. It will generate 20% of the energy for the
plant. The solar array is the size of 11
football fields.
But, get this: THE PLANT
SENDS NO WASTE to landfills. They even
recycle food scraps from the dining facility.
This is remarkable for such a big-scale product and plant. And tells us
all that Green is here to stay, it is good for business.
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