Tag: Spotlight
Mobile County Takes The Spotlight for Shipbuilding
Mobile County, in southwest Alabama, is the state’s second most populous county. It has the state’s only seaport, and is known for its booming...
Madison County Takes The Spotlight in Aerospace and Technology
Madison County in north Alabama is one of the fastest growing counties in the Southeast and is home to a leading defense, aerospace and...
Etowah and St. Clair counties Take The Spotlight
Etowah and St. Clair counties in north central Alabama have the enviable benefits of very easy interstate, rail and air access for business and industry,...
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,...