Boeing starts up Dreamliner ‘surge’ line
Aug 29, 2012 | 04:01 PM
| Frank Haflich
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LOS ANGELES — Boeing Co. has started up a third assembly line for its titanium-intensive 787 Dreamliner as it looks to build a new version of the plane while also increasing production to 10 planes per month.
The so-called "surge line" in Everett, Wash., joins an existing line at the same location operated by the company’s Seattle-based Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) subsidiary. Another assembly line in North Charleston, S.C., rolled out its first 787 earlier this year. ....
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