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Article: United States: Boeing to spend $130 million to modernize Chinook factory.
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- September 12, 2009
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Byline: rakshali03
Revenues for the Chicago-based company in 2008 topped $60 billion. Its global workforce is more than 150,000 people. And if you drive along I-95 in Delaware County, the Boeing Rotorcraft complex sprawls over 364 acres between the highway and the Delaware River.
Standing on the factory floor inside a massive U-shaped building yesterday, I marveled at the Chinook assembly line. The tandem-rotor helicopter is big, but even a row of the new F class models was dwarfed by the soaring structure.
Boeing s CH-47 assembly line inhabits an 80-year-old building once used by the defunct Baldwin Locomotive Works, which built even more ...