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19407
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In 1976 in Mayodan Charles Sutherland III's grandfather ran a division of Madison Throwing Co. that developed an oil that made large spinning machines spin with ease. The only drawback was that it gummed up the machines. With a little research, his son Charles Jr., and his son's brother-in-law Ron Joyce, developed a product to clean away the lint and grime. Martin recounts the growth of the product, now known as Charlie's Soap.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 4, Apr 2013,
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19461
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Hamlin Casting Corp., located in Pilot Mountain, is the most productive U.S. foundry that makes money molding metal with sand. The technique is called sand-casting and was developed by the Chinese centuries ago. Hamlin began using a similar technique in 1946. The company began in Illinois but moved to Pilot Mountain in 1985. The company has sand-cast over sixty million pounds of parts for the marine, electrical, trucking, aerospace, and other industries.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 5, May 2013,
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19737
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Martin introduces readers to the new Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Sharon Decker. She had a career in the corporate world but left it to become a minister, prior to her present assignment.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 6, June 2013,
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Hugh R. Perry and ten Sanford businessmen founded Lee Brick & Tile Company in Sanford in the early 1950s. Perry later bought out his associates, and the business still remains in his family's hands. The company occupies a twenty-acre site along with its shale pit. Lee Brick will make about 40 million bricks this year. North Carolina is second only to Texas in output.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 6, June 2013,
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20310
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The Northeast corner of North Carolina is one of the most rural and poor regions of the state. But with the help the aviation and military industries from across the Virginia line, this region of North Carolina is getting a boost.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 7, Jul 2013,
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20311
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Fletcher, North Carolina based Legacy Paddlesports LLC is one of the most prominent brands of kayak in the world. More than a decade after its launching, the company now merged with Native and Heritage brands of Greensboro, is expanding and bringing a new plant to the Green River, where inspiration first struck.
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Cars and racing have pushed Ollen Bruton Smith onto the list of FORBES' list of the 400 richest Americans. With the success of Charlotte Motor Speedway--the regional nucleus of the racing industry in Concord--and Sonic Automotive, Smith is battling back from the recession; however, he is also threatening to take his billion dollar economic input from North Carolina to Las Vegas.
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21160
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Park Liner, Inc., of Gibsonville, manufactures lightweight travel trailers. Martin describes how the company builds its trailers based on the \"less-is-more\" principle.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 10, Oct 2013,
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21840
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On February 2, 2014, a storage pond at a retired Duke Energy coal-fired power plant in Eden poured over 2.35 million gallons of toxic water and about 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. It was the third-largest coal-ash spill in the nation's history. Martin recounts events before and after the spill. A map locates the fourteen sites where Duke Energy stores 106 million tons of coal-ash; some plants are active and some are retired. Cleaning up the coal-ash ponds could cost customers over $1 billion.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 2014,
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North Carolina is one of two states to own a railroad--the North Carolina Railroad, running from Morehead City in a 317-mile arc to Charlotte. Chartered in 1849, it is the state's oldest corporation. Edwards recounts the railroad's history and discusses whether the state should own it.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Feb 2014,
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22068
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In 1984 Italian movie producer Dino De Laurentiis arrived in Wilmington to build a studio. Since then over 350 films, television shows, and commercials have been shot there. The industry also has moved to other parts of the state, like Charlotte, Asheville, and the Appalachians. Last year, producers spent around $254 million in the state which created 4,000 jobs and 25,000 part-time and temporary ones. Financial incentives from the state have helped keep this industry working in the state. However, unless the incentives are renewed in June by the Republican-controlled NC General Assembly, they will expire at the end of 2014. What happens then to the film industry is uncertain.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 5, May 2014,
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22071
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Martin examines the $600 million data center built by Google in Lenoir in 2007.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 5, May 2014,
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22302
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Chris Matteo quit his job managing money in Chapel Hill to become an oyster farmer on Chadwick Creek near Bayboro on the Pamlico Sound. He started planning the venture in 2010 when he and his wife Kelly purchased a 110-acre farm in Pamlico County. In 2013 he quit his job and began seeding oysters. His company does business under the name Chadwick Creek Oysters. Martin reports on his progress.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 8, Aug 2014,
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22727
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Sleep is big business for Mebane, North Carolina-based, and the state's largest, mattress maker Kingsdown, Inc. Taking on the bigger mattress companies by touting high-end design and artistry, the premium, hand-made mattress business is expanding into smart mattresses controlled with electronics, and into larger international markets.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 35 Issue 5, May 2015,
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23899
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The Triad region established the marketing strategy of regionalism in North Carolina and it became a model for seven other state-designated regional partnerships. Now, however, politicians are suspicious of regionalism, for many communities are becoming more concerned with individual economic growth. Consequently, population, wages, and employment in the Triad are falling behind the metropolitan regions of Charlotte and Raleigh.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 35 Issue 7, July 2015,
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