Airbus ups Mobile workforce

MOBILE, Ala. - The Airbus Engineering Center at Mobile’s Brookley Industrial Complex will be getting another 90 engineers. The center currently has 150 engineers. Airbus opened the 48,000-square-foot building in 2007. The employees at the center work on cabin interiors, cargo systems and escape systems on a wide range of Airbus jets. Airbus owner EADS also hopes to win an Air Force contract to assemble tankers at Brookley. (Source: Mobile Press-Register, 06/30/10)