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Indiana Gov. Joseph E. Kernan announces today (Wednesday, Dec. 1) that New Jersey-based Butler International Inc. and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. have partnered to open a new engineering design center at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette. Purdue President Martin C. Jischke looks on at right.
(Purdue News Service photo/Dave Umberger)
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Edward M. Kopko, chairman and CEO of Butler International Inc., talks about the company's plans for its new facility in the Purdue Research Park. Butler International and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today (Wednesday, Dec. 1) announced plans to open a new engineering design center in the research park. Plans call for Butler to initially have 40 employees at the facility with the potential for as many as 400 workers.
(Purdue News Service photo/Dave Umberger)
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Engineering design support for Connecticut-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. will be performed by a division of the New Jersey-based Butler International in a new center to open at Purdue Research Park. The center is expected to bring West Lafayette as many as 200 high-tech jobs in the helicopter industry. Among Sikorsky's better-known products are the H-60 Blackhawk and the Marine One presidential helicopter. The company is proposing a new version of its H-92 demonstrator helicopter (shown) for the next Marine One.
(Photo courtesy of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.)
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Butler engineers will design helicopters for Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. at the Purdue Research Park's former Whirlpool Corp. building, which is being renovated by the city of West Lafayette and Purdue Research Foundation. The design center initially will involve 40 employees working in 12,900 square feet of space. The 111,000-square-foot warehouse facility also provides additional space for future expansion.
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