EVERETT — High-tech engineering company Novator has announced that it has signed a lease in Everett for a maintenance-and-repair facility.
The Swedish company supplies the Boeing Co. with portable orbital drills used on the 787 line for drilling titanium into composites. The Everett facility will employ up to six workers for support, warranty and repair work as well as program design and customer relations.
“We are encouraged with our new presence in Snohomish County,” said Hans-Petter Andersson, the company CEO, in a statement. “For us, this is the first step in our long-term plan to grow into the North American aerospace market with local personnel to facilitate enhanced service and support of our customers.”
The company plans to send workers from Sweden to Everett initially and then train local workers to do the repair work, said John Monroe, the chief operating officer of Economic Alliance Snohomish County. He said the equipment potentially could be used for the 777X line.
He said the facility will repair drills used on the 787 in both in Everett and South Carolina.
“It’s establishing a beachhead in the state and that’s what we’re excited about,” Monroe said.
Economic Alliance Snohomish County met with Novator in early 2014 to show company executives the community and helped them find a location at the Paine Field Business Park at the corners of Airport and Casino roads. The group is continuing to help Novator.
For the second consecutive year in 2014, Novator has received the gold level Boeing Performance Excellence Award, one of only 119 suppliers to receive the award.
Last week, Canadian aerospace supplier Héroux-Devtek announced that it’s opening a plant in Everett for assembling landing gear systems for Boeing. That company is expected to employ at most 10 people.
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