NORTH CHARLESTON (WCSC) -
More than 300 jobs could soon be coming to
the lowcountry, after a manufacturing facility opened its doors today.
TIGHITCO held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at
their new 100,000 sq. ft. facility in North Charleston. Community leaders, company officials and
Governor Nikki Haley were all in attendance.
The facility is the future site of the production of wingtips for
business jets.
"It's a very complex aerostructure," Intertech
President Jonathan Zucker said. "Obviously,
it takes on some stress during flight and we make that out of a series of
composite and metal structures."
TIGHITCO currently operates several facilities
across North America and already provides airplane parts to Boeing, which has a
production site just a few miles away from TIGHITCO's newest building.
"We look at co-locating with our customers
to lean out the supply chain," TIGHITCO President Peter Nicholas said. "The other benefit is, when their engineering
people need to talk to our people, or they want to come see product on the shop
floor, they're 10 minutes away or 30 minutes away."
Nicholas said recent problems with the
battery inside Boeing's Dreamliners have not affected their partnership.
"Boeing will get this figured out. Its Boeing's big company and they know what
they're doing," he said. "They've
continued producing airplanes at the same five per month rate they were at
before their troubles. They're very close
to getting it figured out."
TIGHITCO could hire up to 350 people at the
facility. Job availabilities will be
posted to scworks.org.
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