By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: December 10,2011
A German company that makes fan wheels and blowers is relocating its manufacturing operations to a 20,000-square-foot building in Hickory. The building is on Sweetwater Road, just off McDonald Parkway. The move is expected sometime in the next three to six months. In the deal, Jim Mitchell was the head broker in charge for Hickory-based [...]
By Scott Baughman, staff writer
Published: November 12,2011
The former Premiere Manufacturing Knitting Co. plant in Morganton has a new lease on life, since it’s now home to City Hall and residential and commercial properties. About 10 years ago, the 100,000-square-foot Burke County building was a decaying hulk at the edge of the central business district. “People called it Kosovo,” said Sally Sandy, [...]
By Scott Baughman, staff writer
Published: October 25,2011
Driving down Main Street in Conover, visitors are likely to see a scene both familiar and heartbreaking for many rural North Carolina cities: shuttered shops and crumbling factories, ghosts of a more prosperous time. But in a few of the old buildings there can be seen signs of fighting back against a flagging economy and [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: October 11,2011
France-based Bluestar Silicones says it is getting close to starting a retrofit project at the 226,000-square-foot former Hella Lighting building at 7979 Park Place Road in York County. The company, which earlier this year said it picked 12345 Steele Creek Road in Charlotte as the site to consolidate two U.S. manufacturing facilities, reneged on that [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: August 30,2011
FSI Intermodal Specialists has purchased a 17,920-square-foot building at 520 Hebron St. to serve as a distribution center for a major window and door manufacturing company, according to a blog from the Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors. The purchase price was not listed. In addition to the new facility, the Charlotte-based business runs two container [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: August 22,2011
Cabarrus County commissioners approved a $1.69 million grant last week for Celgard to expand its Concord manufacturing facility. In July, the Charlotte-based company announced plans to expand its Concord plant, where it makes components for lithium batteries, pending the county’s approval of local incentives. Company spokesman Holli Hughes said a date has not been set for the [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: August 19,2011
After purchasing the former Maxon Furniture plant from Maxon in July for $1.7 million, Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Universal Forest Products started moving equipment into the 69,000-square-foot plant on Grace Church Road in Salisbury last week, company spokeswoman Lynn Afendoulis said. The company, which manufactures and distributes wood and wood-alternative products for the construction industry, plans [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: July 21,2011
Nucor Corp. said it had higher net profit in the second quarter of 2011 compared with the same quarter a year ago as sales rose 22 percent from a year ago. The Charlotte-based steel-products manufacturer said it had net profit of $299.8 million, or 94 cents per diluted share, up from $91 million, or 29 cents [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: July 20,2011
With the help of a $50,000 state grant, an Iredell County manufacturer plans to add 37 jobs and invest $6.4 million as part of an expansion project. BestSweet, a manufacturer of consumer health care and confectionery products, will make the investment over the next three years in Mooresville. The company employs 272 full-time workers in the [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: June 23,2011
A Chinese solar cell and modules maker has picked Charlotte as the base of its U.S. operation. Jetion Solar Corp., a subsidiary of Jetion Solar China Limited, today announced that it is leasing a 20,000-square-foot facility at the Prologis Business Park, 10900 South Commerce Drive, in the Westinghouse Boulevard area. In a press release, Jetion said [...]
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