Named in honor of a South Carolina native and Challenger astronaut, the Ronald E. McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation was founded in 2011 at the University of South Carolina with donations from Darla Moore, Anita Zucker and Marva Smalls. After just five years of the Center being…
In a recent release, Greer State Bank welcomed Paul Pickhardt as the new Senior Vice President and SBA Lending Manager. Paul joins the bank bringing a wealth of experience in SBA program business development, originations and packaging. A leader in the industry, Paul was ranked the…
The Palmetto State has been hard at work over the past three years to develop the aerospace industry. Leaders from the public, private, academic and nonprofit sectors have organized behind an effort called SC Aerospace – a collaborative effort of the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has published its first regulations governing the commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones. The new regulations are set to take effect in August. Despite widespread media coverage of potential commercial applications of drone technology, such as…
Saying “South Carolina manufacturing is strong right now” is a true statement. But that doesn’t mean it will be true next year or even a few months from now. This is not a gloom-and doom, sky is falling report. It’s a fact. South Carolina has relied…
Our nation’s chemical sector is an $812 billion industry that directly provides jobs for nearly 800,000 people and supports jobs for seven million people in related fields. South Carolina has been home to a manufacturing revolution over the past decade and the revolution relies heavily on the…
Manufacturing firms tend to focus on their products. In fact, we often fall in love with them. It consumes most of our time at work, and for many in the business, much of their time away from the office as well. We celebrate big orders and naively…
Company Profile Vision 2 Destiny (V2D) is an asset-based logistics company that has been providing a wide variety of services for the Spartanburg, SC, area and beyond since 2003. The company prides itself on being a company that “does it all:” assembly, just-in-sequence, just-in-time delivery, manufacturing, kitting…
Recent events abroad are a sobering reminder of what makes the US market such an attractive location for foreign direct investment. Long considered a relatively solid democratic gateway from Europe to Asia, the Ataturk airport attack and subsequent failed Istanbul coup attempt in Turkey will largely erase…
For manufacturing companies software is an increasingly important aspect of their product’s value proposition. From consumer to industrial products, nearly every industry is affected. Incorporating software presents greater challenges to companies whose products have traditionally been hardware oriented. Consider an example from the automotive industry. A…