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In a move that elected officials say could keep the assembly line at the Boeing plant in Ridley Park, Pa., busy for 20 years, the U.S. Army has canceled a proposed attack helicopter by rivals Lockheed Sikorsky and Bell Textron and transferred funds to upgrade Boeing's Chinook helicopters and smarter drones.
The Army that it is discontinuing work on the Future Attack and Reconnaissance Aircraft — often called scout helicopters — and shifting funds to speed a long-delayed upgrade of up to 425 Boeing Chinook CH-47s.
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Purolite, the King of Prussia company that makes resin beads for water-purification and medical pills, will convert the former W.L. Gore facility into a factory.
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Piasecki Aircraft Corp. plans to hire 400 workers over the next five years to work in the former Lockheed Sikorsky plant it bought in Chester County.