The Future of Textiles
Site manager and President Kevin Allen has worked in textiles more than 40 years, beginning...
Up Close World ’Round
There you are on the Mobile Bay ferry — or at Mount Rushmore or Stone Mountain or at the feet of Birmingham’s Vulcan statue...
Hyundai’s Power Play
This is the Hyundai plant in Alabama that doesn’t make cars. It’s Hyundai Power Transformers USA and, as the name suggests, ...
Legacy Machine Maker
One of the largest employers in Dale County is a manufacturer that sprouted from the area’s rural roots and continues to flourish, cutting trees and clearing land.
Skills Standards for Manufacturers
Adopting national training standards for manufacturing jobs tops priorities for Alabama Community College System workforce division.
Bayou Shipbuilder Booming
Travis Short looks out the picture window in his Bayou La Batre office and points out the diversity of Horizon Shipbuilding’s clientele. To...
Enterprise as Therapy
They make protective sleeves for plants using brown paper and glue. They cut, sharpen and paint wooden stakes that hold real estate yard...
Hook-Setting Determination
For many people, the old Andy Griffith Show perfectly personified what life was like in a small Southern town in the ’50s and...
A Declaration of Independence in International Trade
We spoke with U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions in mid-June, on the subject of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. At the time, opponents...
American Manufacturers Battle Chinese Scofflaws
When Business Alabama visited with him two years ago, Milton Magnus III was hanging in there — up to his neck fighting illegal...
