Business North Carolina articles from June 2005

Business North Carolina archives from June 2005

High-school confidential.(UP FRONT)(Column)
June 1, 2005... Lots of people hang their college degrees on the walls of their offices. The publisher of The Pilot, the Southern Pines newspaper, also displays his high-school diploma. He wonders why I would think that odd. "It was a huge accomplishment,...

Trend.(North carplina)
June 1, 2005... [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Latest Previous Previous % change month month year from last year EMPLOYMENT ...

Stock watch.
June 1, 2005... SPOTLIGHT The price of gem maker Charles & Colvard more than doubled in three months, while most Tar Heel stocks fell. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Highest price/earnings ratios P/E ...

Rules cause big headache for small-business owners.(ECONOMIC OUTLOOK)(Interview)
June 1, 2005... Small-business owners in North Carolina are less satisfied with local business conditions than peers in neighboring states, according to a survey by the Washington, D.C.-based National Federation of Independent Business. Gregg Thompson is its...

B & D plant closing rips Fayetteville.(EASTERN)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Black & Decker will close its plant in Fayetteville by the end of next year. About 675 jobs will be lost, with half moved to Jackson, Tenn., and the rest transferred to Reynosa, Mexico. The plant, which opened in 1967, employed about 1,500 at...

West Corp.(Recruiting)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... ROCKY MOUNT -- Omaha, Neb.-based West Corp. began recruiting 900 employees for a call center it will open in August in a former Kmart store. It will handle inquiries for wireless-telephone companies and pay an average of about $8 an hour. Two...

AirBoss of America.(EASTERN)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... SCOTLAND NECK -- Newmarket, Ontario-based AirBoss of America is refurbishing a 102,000-square-foot factory to produce rubber compounds. It will begin production this summer with 86 workers, who will make about $100 a week more than Halifax...

Fayetteville.(Housing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... FAYETTEVILLE -- The city and four local developers will spend $12 million to build a residential and retail complex downtown. Construction will be finished in early 2007 and include 24 condominiums and 18 town houses.

Cedartown Manufacturing.(investments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... CLARKTON -- Cedartown Manufacturing, a joint venture of Sanford-based Frontier Spinning Mill and Montreal-based Gildan Activewear, will spend about $25 million to reopen a former yarn plant by October. It will employ about 130.

Federal legislation might continue dredging operations in Oregon Inlet for the rest of 2005.(EASTERN)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Federal legislation might continue dredging operations in Oregon Inlet for the rest of 2005, but beyond that the inlet's future is murky. The Army Corps of Engineers had spent its $5.4 million budget for 2005 dredging by early spring, but...

Working capital.(REGIONAL REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Source: Employment Security Commission, February. Figures are not seasonally adjusted. The index is the number of jobs as a percentage of the average in 2000. [GRAPHIC OMITTED]

Parts maker gears up for expansion.(investments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... AW North Carolina, part of Japanese automobile-parts maker Aisin AW, plans to spend $130 million to add equipment and 68,000 square feet to its 750,000-square-foot factory in Durham. It will add at least 150 workers to the 900 it has here. AW...

Art.com.(Mergers)(AllPosters.com)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... RALEIGH -- Online poster retailer Art.com merged with Emeryville, Calif.-based AllPosters.com. Terms weren't disclosed. The surviving entity is considering a name change. The Triangle will lose at least 96 of the 200 jobs Art.com had here.

Waste Industries USA.(Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... RALEIGH -- Waste Industries USA made three acquisitions in North Carolina and Georgia for undisclosed sums. Piedmont-McKinney provides commercial waste service in Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point. Foreman's Sanitation provides...

University of North Carolina.(Retirements)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... CHAPEL HILL -- Molly Broad, president of the University of North Carolina system since 1997, will retire at the end of the 2005-06 school year. The system's board of governors named a committee to pick a successor.

Talecris Biotherapeutics.(Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Talecris Biotherapeutics, a new company based here and backed by New York-based Cerberus Capital Management and Wellesley, Mass.-based Ampersand Ventures, bought Bayer's plasma-products business for $590 million. About...

Icoria.(Divestments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Icoria, which researches gene-based drugs, agreed to sell some agricultural assets to St. Louis-based Monsanto for $6.75 million. The deal will help Monsanto identify and develop new genes for crops. Icoria will use...

Progress Energy.(investmnets)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... RALEIGH -- Progress Energy plans to spend $140 million to install automated meters at the homes of 2.6 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida in the next year. The equipment will reduce operating expenses and the need for meter readers,...

BioDelivery Sciences International.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... MORRISVILLE -- BioDelivery Sciences International, which develops drug-delivery methods, moved its headquarters from Newark, N.J., after Mark Sirgo, who was working here, became president. No local jobs were added. Six of its 22 employees work...

Research Triangle Institute.(Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Research Triangle Institute bought three divisions of MCNC Research & Development Institute for about $5 million. RTI added MCNC's divisions for signal electronics, materials and electronic technologies and advanced...

Stock Building Supply.(Gator Lumber )(Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... RALEIGH -- Stock Building Supply bought Sebastian, Fla.-based Gator Lumber for an undisclosed price. Gator produces annual revenue of $15 million. Stock, part of England-based Wolseley, operates more than 240 stores in 27 states. It reported...

Ciena.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... DURHAM -- Linthicum, Md.-based Ciena closed its research-and-development office here. Some of the office's 60 employees will be offered other jobs in the company, which makes telecom equipment.

First Citizens Bank.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... RALEIGH -- First Citizens Bank, part of First Citizens BancShares, will open its first Tennessee branch in Nashville in the fourth quarter. It has 336 branches in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.

Tekelec.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Tekelec, a maker of telecommunications products, will move its headquarters to Morrisville from Calabasas, Calif., during the next year. The move could add about 40 jobs to the approximately 700 Tekelec has here. The company, which employs...

IPO is too bitter a pill to swallow now.(Initial Public Offerings)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Targacept withdrew its request to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of stock. The Winston-Salem drug developer said it was not satisfied with the prices fetched by other biotechnology companies that went...

Lexington Home Brands.(Downsizing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... LEXINGTON -- Lexington Home Brands laid off 90 employees at two Davidson County plants in May, leaving the furniture maker with about 800 workers in its hometown and about 1,060 overall. The company, citing overseas competition, laid off 110 in...

Jefferson-Pilot.(Contracts)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... GREENSBORO -- Insurer Jefferson-Pilot extended CEO Dennis Glass' contract through 2008. Glass, 55, received $950,946 in salary and $1.2 million in other compensation last year. He succeeded David Stone-cipher in March 2004.

Duracell.(facilities)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... LEXINGTON -- Bethel, Conn.-based battery maker Duracell will close its plant here by early next year, eliminating 280 jobs. Duracell blamed weak sales of the lithium batteries made here. They're being replaced by rechargeable ones.

Douglas Battery Manufacturing.(TRIAD)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... WINSTON-SALEM -- Douglas Battery Manufacturing laid off 200--fewer than the 350 it anticipated--after selling its automotive-battery division to Lyon Station, Pa.-based East Penn Manufacturing. Douglas restructured the company to emphasize its...

ConvaTec.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... GREENSBORO -- Skillman, N.J.-based ConvaTec, which makes pouches for colostomy patients, is closing one of its two plants here by July. It will dismiss 150 workers, leaving 240.

Volvo Trucks North America.(Investments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... GREENSBORO -- Volvo Trucks North America is spending $10 million to expand its headquarters. The truck maker plans to add 150 jobs during the next three years, bringing employment to about 1,600. The new jobs will pay an average of $60,000 a...

Pike Holdings.(Securities)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... MOUNT AIRY -- Pike Holdings, which owns power-line distributor and installer Pike Electric, wants to go public by selling $230 million of stock. Proceeds would pay debt. Pike made $16.5 million on revenue of $356.7 million in its latest fiscal...

Tangent Analytics.(Acquisitions)(Jack Clark and Associates)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... WINSTON-SALEM -- Monett, Mo.-based Jack Clark and Associates, which makes banking software, bought Tangent Analytics for an undisclosed sum. Tangent makes data-mining software. Clark will keep its 10 employees.

Universal Furniture International.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... HIGH POINT -- Randy Chrisley replaced Harvey Dondero as CEO of Universal Furniture International. Chrisley joined Universal in 2001 as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Dondero replaced Dennis Burgette as CEO of Lenoir-based...

VF.(Reef Holdings)(Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... GREENSBORO -- Apparel maker VF bought Reef Holdings, a San Diego-based maker of surfing shoes and clothing. Terms were not disclosed. Reef had sales of $75 million last year.

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.(TRIAD)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, a Burlington-based medical-testing company, bought Esoterix, an Austin, Texas-based competitor, for $150 million. Also, Wesley R. Elingburg retires this month as chief financial officer. His...

UNCC moves more gown downtown.(UNC Charlotte)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... UNC Charlotte plans to expand its presence downtown with a $30 million classroom building. The proposed five-story, 100,000-square-foot structure would be more convenient for center-city workers than the school's main campus on the city's...

Atkinson International.(Facilities)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... GASTONIA -- Atkinson International started a riveting operation in a 200,000-square-foot building once occupied by farm-equipment maker John Deere. The plant, part of Canadian truck-parts maker Atkinson Re-Work Specialists, will employ 100 by...

Alcoa Subassembly and Logistics.(CHARLOTTE)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... SALISBURY -- Alcoa Subassembly and Logistics, part of the Pittsburgh-based aluminum maker, invested $6 million to refurbish a vacant building and create 75 jobs here. The plant will help produce wheel and tire assemblies for nearby Freightliner...

Hickory Regional Airport.(CHARLOTTE)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... HICKORY -- Delta's Atlantic Southeast Airlines began thrice-daily flights between Hickory Regional Airport and Atlanta. The move ends a three-year absence of commercial service at the airport.

Polymer Group.(CHARLOTTE)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... MOORESVILLE -- North Charleston, S.C.-based Polymer Group, which makes nonwoven fabric for medical and industrial use, will spend $40 million to add a production line at its 170-employee factory by the second quarter of 2006. It also will add...

General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products.(CHARLOTTE)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, part of the Falls Church, Va.-based defense contractor, won a contract worth $127.5 million to make equipment for a howitzer produced by London-based BAE Systems. The work will be...

Colortex.(CHARLOTTE)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... GASTONIA -- Belgium-based textile finisher Colortex will spend $2 million to open its North American headquarters and an operation to finish knitted mattress ticking in a 30,000-square-foot building here. Colortex USA will hire 30 this year and...

Parkdale Mills.(CHARLOTTE)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... MINERAL SPRINGS -- Parkdale Mills plans to spend $23.2 million to shift production from bedsheet yarn to T-shirt yarn at its plant here. No timetable has been disclosed. The conversion would add 36 jobs to the plant's work force of 95 and...

Wachovia.(CHARLOTTE)(Wachovia Bank of North Carolina N.A. acquires Palmer and Cay Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Wachovia, the nation's fourth-largest bank holding company, agreed to buy Savannah, Ga.-based Palmer & Cay, the 15th-largest insurance brokerage and benefits consultant. Palmer & Cay has about 950 employees and 34 offices in 22...

Bank of America.(CHARLOTTE)(BankAmerica Corp. acquires KeyCorp.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Bank of America agreed to buy the $990 million prime indirect auto-loan portfolio of Cleveland-based KeyCorp. Terms weren't disclosed. The portfolio is spread among 89,000 customers and expands BofA's auto-loan business in the...

Volex.(CHARLOTTE)(downsizing of Volex Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... CONOVER -- Volex, a British maker of communication cable, will cease manufacturing here by the end of September, laying off 60 of its 84 employees to cut costs. It will keep its local purchasing and sales staff.

McColl Graduate School of Business.(CHARLOTTE)(Terry Broderick appointed as the dean)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Terry Broderick will become interim dean of the McColl Graduate School of Business at Queens University this month. He replaces Peter Browning. Broderick is a former CEO of Charlotte-based insurer Royal & SunAlliance USA.

Charlotte School of Law.(CHARLOTTE)(InfiLaw)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Naples, Fla.-based InfiLaw won a license from the UNC board of governors for a law school here. The company hopes to open Charlotte School of Law in fall 2006. InfiLaw is the parent of Florida Coastal School of Law and Phoenix...

Lash Group.(CHARLOTTE)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Drug consultant Lash Group says it will add 150 jobs in Charlotte by the end of the summer, thanks to a new contract with a drug company that it declines to name. Lash helps drug and biotechnology clients with product-related reimbursement...

Aye, robot: assembly line shows its metal.(WESTERN)(Nypro Inc. plans expansion.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Nypro Asheville, part of Clinton, Mass.-based Nypro, began an expansion that will add about 15 workers, pushing the total to about 220 at its plant in Arden. Nypro Asheville makes injection-molded plastic products for packaging and health care,...

Harris, Murr & Vermillion.(WESTERN)(plans to develop Buncombe County.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... FAIRVIEW -- A residential and commercial development on 406 acres could become one of southeast Buncombe County's largest projects, but critics say it will spoil scenic vistas and snarl traffic. Charlotte developer Harris, Murr & Vermillion...

The Nature Conservancy.(WESTERN)(plans to develop Hickory Nut Gorge.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... LAKE LURE -- Much of Hickory Nut Gorge, a scenic 14-mile-long canyon, could become a 3,000-acre state park. Promoters are pushing the concept in the General Assembly, and The Nature Conservancy, an Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit with a chapter...

Tennessee Valley Authority.(WESTERN)(Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... ASHEVILLE -- Recent National Park Service studies concluded that Great Smoky Mountains air, while still polluted, is improving. Park officials and others say $6 billion spent by the Tennessee Valley Authority to clean up coal-fired power plants...

White Oak Plantation.(WESTERN)(Polk County)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... COLUMBUS -- A potential hurdle to White Oak Plantation, a giant Polk County residential development, won't be a problem after all. Engineers here say new studies show the town's water supply will meet the development's 442,000-gallon daily...

Cheap imports kill mills as wharf fare heats up.(TAR HEEL TATTLER)(China and Wilmington's imports.)
June 1, 2005... During the past 10 years, Tar Heel textile makers have closed factories, laid off workers and moved a good portion of what production they have left offshore. The most-cited reason: a glut of cheap imports. But imports--combined with good...

When more than you need is not enough.(TAR HEEL TATTLER)(downsizing of Progress Energy Co. )
June 1, 2005... To shed 450 of its 15,700 jobs, Raleigh-based Progress Energy offered early retirement to 3,500 people--everybody on its payroll who had turned 50 and spent at least five years with the company. The plan worked only too well. Nearly 1,450...

Board doesn't keep faith, so Belk bolts.(TAR HEEL TATTLER)(John Belk donates to Davidson College.)
June 1, 2005... Andrew Jackson said that one man with courage makes a majority. If one man with currency could perform the same trick, you'd think it would be John Belk at Davidson College. The chairman emeritus of Belk department stores is the school's most...

Night Fall.(WHAT THEY'RE READING)
June 1, 2005... Gregory Beier, CEO, Novant Health Triad Region Night Fall by Nelson DeMille This is a page turner that compelled me late at night to keep reading. DeMille provides a fictional alternative for the TWA Flight 800 tragedy. I enjoyed the...

Winning.(WHAT THEY'RE READING)
June 1, 2005... Kenneth J. Gill, CEO, CPI Security Systems Winning by Jack Welch I find all of Jack Welch's books motivating and informative. His experience is a testament to hard work, planning and long-term goals. To be successful, you need a...

To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War.(WHAT THEY'RE READING)(Brief Review)
June 1, 2005... John L. Jernigan, managing partner, Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara Shaara, a very good storyteller, uses Gen. "Black Jack" Pershing, Eddie...

Ramping up.(TATTLE TALES)(U.S. Forest Service to charge for harvesting wild leeks)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Ramping up: Eating ramps leaves you smelling like a hygienically challenged skunk, but ramp festivals have become so popular in the mountains that the U.S. Forest Service--most of the wild leeks are harvested in national forests--will start...

Fare enough.(TATTLE TALES)(US Airways seat prices too low)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Fare enough: Maybe this explains why US Airways is struggling through its second bankruptcy. The largest carrier in the state was selling tickets over the Internet for flights from, among other places, Charlotte and Asheville for as little as...

Ticked off.(TATTLE TALES)(Jacksonville city hall design critiqued)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Ticked off: Architects of the $4.5 million Jacksonville City Hall expansion, which includes two clock towers, invited critiques. They got them. Among comments in letters to the editor of the local paper: "They remind me of a correctional...

So much from so few.(TATTLE TALES)(population growth in Georgia)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... So much from so few: Camden County's population increased 7.2% between July 2003 and July 2004, giving it the eighth-highest growth rate in the U.S. But the tiny county added only 570 people.

Stubborn as a bull.(TATTLE TALES)(Durham City Council sues Ava Hinton.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Stubborn as a bull: Last year, the Durham City Council nixed an offer to settle a suit by a former employee who claimed she had been fired in July 2003 for being a whistle-blower. Ava Hinton would have dropped it if the city had rehired her and...

Another bounce.(TATTLE TALES)
June 1, 2005... Another bounce: Durham did get a break, though. Hinton agreed in May to a settlement in exchange for the city dropping its appeal of the verdict. She new gets about $390,000 and her job back.

More is less.(TATTLE TALES)
June 1, 2005... More is less: Lexington led state municipalities in collecting bad debts last year, thanks to the North Carolina Debt Setoff Clearinghouse, an agency created for that purpose by the League of Municipalities and Association of County...

Data bits.(Crimes against property)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Because state crime statistics for Edgecombe County include the Nash County portion of Rocky Mount and we used unadjusted county populations, last month's chart inflated Edgecombe's 2003 property-crime rate. Here are the correct rates for...

Figuratively speaking.
June 1, 2005... * Percentage of U.S. CEOs who say what motivates them most is fear: 43. Power: 22. Money: 7. * Number of Americans at any given time who are attempting to start a business: 10 million. Percentage of new businesses with employees that...

Utility executive lends his energy to Commerce.(PEOPLE)
June 1, 2005... Some executives grow with the job. Sandy Jordan, the new director of business recruitment at the N.C. Department of Commerce, figures his job got a head start on him. "It's a competitive business. It's no longer a matter of North Carolina...

Finding diamonds in the rough was his job.(PEOPLE)(Donald Haack )
June 1, 2005... Sometimes, Donald Haack says, he wonders who the young man with a crew cut in the yellowed photographs was. The one who nearly suffocated in a South American river when his diving helmet failed. The one who slid down a hotel bedsheet in the...

If business is good, he loses his pants.(PEOPLE)
June 1, 2005... Bar-S-Ranch is not your average country club, but it has the bare essentials. Play the nine-hole golf course or pingpong, go for a swim, fish in the 7-acre stocked lake, roam the nature trails on its 400 acres 10 miles west of Reidsville. Then...

Tar Heels' victory suits Soffe to a T.(SPORTS SECTION)(M.J. Soffe Company Inc.)
June 1, 2005... Pete Gilman showed up for work at M.J. Soffe Co. around midnight. His job as sales manager for the Fayetteville apparel manufacturer's collegiate division usually requires him to work while the sun shines. What happened this night had changed...

Skyline drive: it's building towers for people wanting to live it up downtown.(BUILDING NORTH CAROLINA)(influence of Charlotte skyline )
June 1, 2005... Kevin Archer and his wife, Leslie, had looked at five or six condominium sites in downtown Charlotte when they rode the elevator to the top floor of a 13-story building one Sunday in January. The Archers were planning to move to the Queen City...

The energizer: Progress Energy sparked a building boom when it erected downtown Raleigh's biggest project in more than a decade.(PICTURE THIS)(services of Cooper Carry )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... It's only fitting that the company once known as Carolina Power & Light put up a building that has become a beacon for downtown Raleigh's renewal. Two Progress Plaza--the 19-story, $100 million mixed-use development that is a collaboration of...

Where the elite meet: "we are a producer of North Carolina business leaders," the headmaster says. It's been that way for generations.(Cover Story)
June 1, 2005... Sitting on a plush green couch in the concierge lounge on the 18th floor of the Marriott in downtown Charlotte, Dennis Campbell seems relaxed for someone who just helped give away almost $55 million. The Duke Endowment, the Southeast's largest...

High ambition: western leaders look for new ways to level the playing field.(FEATURE)(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 2005... Western North Carolina is a great place to live but a hard place to make a living. Its assets include rugged mountain beauty and a willing work force, but much of it is isolated, geographically and politically. New companies barely keep pace...

2005 law journal.
June 1, 2005... Running a business is a full-time job. Most executives have more than enough to do just to stay on top of their day-to-day duties. Coming up with ways to generate more revenue, keep employees productive and happy, operate more efficiently and...

Bricks & mortar.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Styled after Europe's rail stations, the transit center in downtown Charlotte is the hub of 40 bus routes that carry 45,000 riders a day. Built in 1995 for $19 million, its charm is augmented by classical music from its PA system. Classy touch?...

State of North Carolina: North Carolina Board of Science and Technology.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2005... I am pleased to introduce this issue of Innovation North Carolina, a forum for sharing information from North Carolina companies and institutions about their research achievements, inventions, patents and programs. Science and...

Where science leads to matters of the heart: groundbreaking technology at East Carolina University pumps new life into cardiovascular research and treatment.
June 1, 2005... On a recent Tuesday evening, a 64-year-old man lay on an operating-room table in Pitt County Memorial Hospital, the affiliated teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The man's fatigue and shortness of...

The state of biomanufacturing: North Carolina pursues an innovative, fast-growing industry that will bring large investments and high-paying jobs.
June 1, 2005... Drive past a pond or lake in North Carolina in the summertime, and it will likely be lush with Lemna, a small, bright-green plant that lives on the water's surface and grows so fast that it might well be considered the aquatic equivalent of...

A new way to train workers: the growing biopharmaceutical industry needs skilled workers, and community colleges are training them--through BioNetwork.(Biomanufacturing)(BioNetwork)(Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center)
June 1, 2005... North Carolina has been visionary in its approach to pharmaceuticals and biomanufacturing. As a result, it ranks third nationally in biotechnology and is home to many of the world's largest biomanufacturing plants in sectors such as vaccine...