ROUND TABLE
MANUFACTURING
MAKE SOMETHING NEW Manufacturing is a cornerstone of North Carolina’s economy, and it has been for decades. But it’s evolving. The COVID-19 pandemic choked supply chains and altered customer bases, adding business for some manufacturers in the process. Workforce needs, in terms of number of employees and skills, are growing. And new technologies are making factories more like spaceships than Henry Ford’s repetitive grind. Business North Carolina magazine recently gathered leaders and experts from the industry to discuss these changes, how manufacturers are stepping up to meet them and how they’ll affect this important part of the state’s economy in the long run.
Geoff Foster
Patrick Jacques
Phil Mintz (moderator)
president and CEO, Core Technology Molding
program director and apprenticeship coordinator, Robeson Community College
executive director, N.C. State University Industry Expansion Solutions; director, North Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership
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