Manufacturing
Company to expand Print E-mail
Tuesday, 08 January 2008
GEORGETOWN -- The South Carolina Department of Commerce and Georgetown County announced that Lowcountry Paver will expand its manufacturing presence in South Carolina and open a facility in Georgetown. Lowcountry Paver, a division of Lowcountry Block LLC has a facility in Hardeeville. The company will invest more than $5 million to expand into Georgetown and create 20 new jobs initially with plans to add 20 jobs later. Lowcountry Paver will locate in the commerce park.
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Plant to hire fewer Print E-mail
Friday, 04 January 2008

GEORGETOWN --American Gypsum will hire 84 workers, not the 100 it had planned, when the company opens in Georgetown this year, plant manager Steve Wentzel said Thursday. The lagging economy forced the cutback at the plant, which plans to begin operating fully in the next few months. The employment cutback comes at a time when the real estate market and increasing fuel costs are dragging local economies down.

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BMW plans expansion Print E-mail
Friday, 04 January 2008

GREER -- BMW has taken another step in expanding its plant near Greer to build about 240,000 vehicles a year by 2010. The company has obtained a building permit from Spartanburg County to expand its paint shop by at a cost of $26.9 million, said to Mike Padgett, head of the county's building permit office. BMW told the state officials in October that it planned to expand the paint shop's capacity to more than 240,000 vehicles.

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Fisher Barton to expand Print E-mail
Wednesday, 02 January 2008

SPARTANBURG -- Fisher Barton South Carolina Inc. will invest $3.5 million to expand its operations in Fountain Inn. Fisher Barton South Carolina makes precision metal stampings, welded assemblies and heat-treated products. The company provides low- to high-volume metal components for automotive uses, industrial uses, lawn and garden, material handling, hand power tools, transportation, outdoor products, and agricultural uses.

Read more at The (Anderson) Independent-Mail...

 
Abbey to stop egg sales Print E-mail
Friday, 21 December 2007
After more than 40 years in the egg business, the monks of Mepkin Abbey plan to phase out egg production, which has been their livelihood and main source of income. People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals has pressured Mepkin Abbey for months about the practice of keeping its chickens in small wire cages, which the organization deems cruel but which is the most common method of egg farming. PETA said its latest protest was organized because the abbey has not changed its practices.
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