Polaris Industries (Leading Manufacturer) – Alabama’s Latest Big Ride
Scott Wine, 48, is CEO and chairman of Polaris Industries, the world’s leading manufacturer of powersports vehicles — off-road vehicles and snowmobiles — with...
Chicken a la Cubana
Americans love chicken — no surprise here — especially white meat, consuming an average of more than 80 pounds per person per year. Many...
Brewery: Craft Beer Rolls Over the State Line
Like a frothy draft creeping over the edge of a cold mug, Alabama’s fledgling brewery business is beginning to expand beyond the confines of...
Custom Engineering Solutions for Manufacturers
Back when they were students at the University of Alabama’s School of Engineering, Arnar Thors says he and Matt Fitzgerald often collaborated on class...
Alabama Aerospace Suppler Base: The Nuts and Bolts of High Flying
When the conversation turns to Alabama’s long involvement in the world-changing aerospace industry, big final assembly manufacturers like Boeing, Lockheed, Airbus and the U.S....
Carpenter Technology: New Star in Alabama Aerospace Cluster
Outside of the aeronautics, do you know what the Wright Brothers, the Spirit of St. Louis and every U.S. Space program project have in...
Remington Outdoor Co.: Directing Rapid Gun Growth
George Kollitides is chairman and CEO of Remington Outdoor Co. Inc., the world’s largest firearms and ammunition manufacturer and Alabama’s most recent big coup...
The Weld That Came in from the Cold War to Change Technology
In a closed, secret city, the Cold War prepared to heat up as Russian scientists quietly developed powerful technology intended to defeat their number...
Front Line in a Trade War with China – Leeds-Based M&B Hangers
It would have been entirely possible for Leeds-based M&B Hangers to be an importer now instead of a manufacturer of steel wire garment hangers....
Warming Chickens with Wood Pellets: Taking Chicken Carbon Neutral
Davis Lee understands the challenges of the poultry industry. He raised chickens as a boy growing up in North Carolina in the ’40s and...