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Aviation Week: Southeast U.S. is hottest spot of aerospace suppliers

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Kevin Michaels writes for Aviation Week that our region is becoming the hottest spot for aerospace suppliers in his viewpoint “New Horizons For Aerospace Suppliers:”

Consider that the hottest new aerospace cluster is not in China, but the U.S. Southeast. Boeing, Embraer, Airbus Rolls-Royce and Airbus Helicopters (formerly Eurocopter) have, or will have, established final assembly facilities in the region, and dozens of sub-tier suppliers are following suit. Investors are attracted by low energy costs; pro-business state governments; flexible, non-unionized labor; and access to the U.S. defense market.

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