INTRODUCING THE MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS CENTER II The MSC II, located in Conover, NC, is making space for the up-and-coming manufacturers of Catawba County. “The central mission of the Manufacturing
offering product testing and development,
company (or a branch of their company)
Solutions Center (MSC) has always been to
business incubation, company training, and
from various states to Catawba County, NC,
support US manufacturers and to help create
other special services.
just so they could innovate and grow in the
and retain US manufacturing jobs,” says
Manufacturing Solutions Center.
Jeff Neuville, Director of the Manufacturing
Through the years, the Manufacturing
Solutions Center (MSC) at CVCC and long-
Solutions Center has developed a national
They all took part in the MSC’s incubator
time community partner.
reputation which has led many companies
program. Shortly, however, they ran into
and their employees to move to Catawba
a dilemma: each company was growing so
From its first purpose as the Hosiery
County, NC, where they could create new
fast and running so well, they ran out of
Technology Center in 1990, to its latest brick-
jobs and receive expert industry advice within
workspace at the MSC I.
and-mortar location at the Conover Station,
the MSC walls.
the Manufacturing Solutions Center has
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That’s where the City of Conover and other
continued to fulfill this purpose. Although the
In recent years, four companies begun
founding partners stepped in with a major
original center was built to support hosiery
operations at the MSC—Clothing 2.0,
plan to build the new MSC II and complete
textiles, it currently serves as the home base
InnovaKnits, YoU Apparel, and Evolved by
stunning renovations to the long-established
for many different manufacturing services—
Nature. Each business owner started their
MSC I.
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