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Local News - Local News - September 27, 2012
Aircraft component manufacturer Triumph Composite to hike hiring
Aerospace supplier ramps up toward 700 workers

By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business

Production mechanic Larry Green works on a form for composite air ducts at the West Plains facility.
Production mechanic Larry Green works on a form for composite air ducts at the West Plains facility.
—Photo courtesy of Triumph Composite Systems Inc.
Spokane-based Triumph Composite Systems Inc., which manufactures composite interior components for commercial aircraft, expects to ramp up hiring by next year to keep pace with Boeing Co.'s scheduled production increases.

Tim Stevens, Triumph Composite Systems president, says the company now employs about 620 people, and that number is likely to be closer to 700 employees by next summer.

Triumph Composite Systems, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania-based Triumph Group In...


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