Lockheed Martin opens coating facility

Manufacturing News, Source : TheManufacturer.com
Published : 26 Jul 2002 20:27

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. has just opened the first phase of its new high-tech $44 million coatings facility.

The facility, in Marietta, GA, draws on the latest robotic technology to improve the F-22 Raptor Fighter assembly coating process. The facility, which is 150,000 square feet and requires 100 employees to operate, will paint the aircraft’s mid- and aft-fuselage, wings, and vertical stabilizers.

“Renovation of the existing B-3 building to create this new robotics coating facility has gone extremely well,” said Robert Reardon, Lockheed Martin Aeronautic’s VP and F-22 program general manager. “The program will greatly benefit from this renovated facility by speeding the flow of coated subassemblies into the aircraft’s final assembly process.”

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