Company hopeful for next-generation Navy sub work plans Charleston-area manufacturing site
A Michigan company that’s aiming to build parts for a new class of U.S. Navy submarines wants to open a $35.2 million manufacturing site that will employ at least 600 people in the Bushy Park area of Goose Creek.
Defense contractor W International, which says it welds and fabricates large engineered structures for submarines and aircraft carriers, hopes to become a supplier for the Columbia class of ballistic missile submarines scheduled to debut in the 2030s. The military’s roughly $90 billion project will include a dozen nuclear submarines that will replace the Cold War-era Ohio class submarines.
Berkeley County Council gave initial approval to property tax breaks Monday for Detroit-based W International, which would move into the former Jacobs Engineering site at the Charleston International Manufacturing Center. Jacobs closed the Cooper River plant in 2015.
