Vista Engineering & Consulting LLC: The Cutting Edge of Diamond Forming
Scientific exploration is the kinetic energy coursing through Vista Engineering & Consulting LLC. With more than 30 years of engineering experience, Raymond Thompson formed...
Vulcan Materials: Hard Rock Mining Easing Up
Tom Hill, in July, was named president and CEO of Vulcan Materials Inc., the second largest nonbank public company in Alabama, with revenues of...
Cullman, Walker and Winston Counties Take the Spotlight
Cullman, Walker and Winston counties are situated in north central Alabama and share Lewis Smith Lake, one of 11 premier bass fishing lakes located...
Biofuel: The Farmer’s Alchemist To Stop Waste of Biomass
There’s oil in them there … corn cobs?
A Tuscaloosa-based company certainly thinks so. Inventure Renewables has created a process to take basic waste biomass,...
Leadership Alabama: New Generation is Gathering Momentum
It is the ultimate power weekend — 50 influential state citizens gathered in a search for answers. Experts in their fields, they meet to...
Mountain Brook Legacy Transformed
The new Lane Parke development under way in Mountain Brook Village, adjacent to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, promises to greatly enhance the popular upscale...
MMI Outdoor: Battle Tested Camp Gear
From father-and-son nights camping under the stars to winning supply contracts for military tents has taken several decades, but it’s been a successful journey...
Clean Power Plan: EPA Cracks Down on Coal
Representatives of coal-fired utilities and politicians in Alabama have been crying foul since the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled its first-ever proposal to reduce carbon...
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....
Where They Are Now: Upstarts Grown Up
Typically, “Where Are They Now?” stories spotlight popular child stars — “The Brady Bunch” brood, the kid from “Doogie Howser, M.D.” or the cast...