Tag: Spotlight
Dale and Coffee Counties Take The Spotlight: Aviation and Aerospace
Dale and Coffee counties, part of Alabama’s Wiregrass region, are among the state’s hot spots for aviation and aerospace. Fort Rucker, the home of...
Bioscience: Careful What You Wish For?
Last fall, U.K.-based Oxford Pharmaceuticals announced plans to build a $29 million, 120, 000-square-foot manufacturing facility at Birmingham’s Jefferson Metropolitan Lakeshore Industrial Park by...
Spotlight on Jefferson County
Jefferson County in central Alabama is the state’s economic and cultural center. It is the largest county by population and home to the largest...
Spotlight on Montgomery County
Montgomery County, in central Alabama, is part of the state’s River Region and is home to the state’s capital city. Steeped in history, the...
Tallapoosa and Chambers Counties Take The Spotlight In East Central AL
Tallapoosa and Chambers counties in east-central Alabama have abundant natural resources and an economy that has shifted in the last decade from textiles and...
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...
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,...
Chambers of Commerce — Varied Focus, Allied Interests
Alabama has 120 chambers of commerce serving as business advocates within their communities. Yet the size, structure and focus among these chambers can vary...
Alabama State Port: Port as State Economic Plan
The $600 million Airbus final assembly line in Mobile will move its first fuselage units through the Alabama State Port in the spring of...
Spotlight on Pike, Barbour and Bullock Counties
Pike, Barbour and Bullock counties are a compatible contrast of traditional and futuristic. In this southeast corner of the state, agriculture thrives alongside technology-driven...