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NC Manufacturing Council

Crafting the Future of Manufacturing in North Carolina

In March 2022, the NC Chamber launched the NC Manufacturing Council for our Cornerstone Members. The Council shares insight on timely topics with subject matter experts for issues including workforce challenges, future talent pipeline, supply chain, and recent trade trends. These virtual meetings gather on a quarterly basis and offer an avenue to address real-life business scenarios with state and national experts. Manufacturers across sectors have the opportunity to network and share best practices. Council members also provide feedback for the NC Chamber’s advocacy priorities and legislative agenda.

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Manufacturing Council Benefits Include:

  • NC Chamber Cornerstone Membership and all benefits therein, including the opportunity to serve on NC Chamber boards or committees.
  • Exclusive access to council meetings with key players in manufacturing across North Carolina.
  • 1:1 access and open door policy with NC Chamber government affairs team and input on our legislative agenda.
  • Quarterly invitations to NC Chamber regional roundtables with top business leaders across industries.
  • Research and data from NC Chamber Institutes for workforce and supply chain competitiveness.

NC Manufacturing Council Member Spotlight

Caterpillar

For nearly 90 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. Caterpillar’s customers turn to them to help develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource assets. With 2013 sales and revenues of $55.656 billion, Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.

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Eaton

Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy and helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges.

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Glen Raven

Glen Raven may have started out as a cotton mill in 1880, but today the business is so much more. As a marketing-oriented company, industry leaders come to Glen Raven to find innovative solutions for their companies. Customers count on Glen Raven for everything from research and development, dying, spinning, weaving and finishing, all the way down to distribution and logistics.

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Shurtape Technologies

Shurtape Technologies, LLC, is a leading manufacturer and marketer of adhesive tape and consumer home and office products, with facilities in the United States and across the world. Together, its subsidiaries serve numerous markets, including DIY, home products, industrial/MRO, building and construction, packaging, HVAC, professional paint, automotive, marine, aerospace, arts and entertainment, graphic arts, sound control, medical and retail. In addition to specialty adhesive solutions, Shurtape offers products under recognizable brand names such as Duck®, FrogTape®, Painter’s Mate®, Shurtape®, T-Rex®, and Kip®.

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A full list of our Manufacturing Council Members can be found at the bottom of this page.

Manufacturing Advocacy & Legislative Agenda

While the state’s traditional manufacturing sectors continue to evolve, North Carolina has reinvented itself as a leader in high-tech manufacturing across an array of business sectors, including biotech, pharmaceutical, and aerospace. However, what many may see as a boon for an industry is in fact a double-edged sword: job openings have been growing at double-digit rates in recent years, but so too has the skills gap, which leaves employers unable to fill critical jobs.

Add to that an outdated and misplaced stigma about the industry, and you’ve got the potential for disaster for one of our state’s most enduring industries. Deloitte finds that the skills gap “may leave an estimated 2.4 million positions unfilled between 2018 and 2028, with a potential economic impact of 2.5 trillion.” The NC Chamber works closely with our manufacturing members to identify solutions to their most pressing problems, including the skills gap.

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Our NC Manufacturing Council Members

AISIN North CarolinaInternational Paper
Albemarle CorporationJohn Deere
American Honda Finance CompanyLeggett & Platt, Inc
American Zinc Recycling/Horsehead Metal Products, Inc.Leviton Manufacturing Company
AraucoLoparex LLC
Bank of AmericaMallinckrodt
BiogenMerck
BorgWarner Turbo SystemsNC's Electric Cooperatives
Caterpillar, IncNovo Nordisk
The Chemours CompanyNutrien
Columbus McKinnonOgletree Deakins
Cook MedicalOpen Book Extracts
CorningPepsi Bottling Ventures
CumminsPMI Global Services
Denso Manufacturing TennesseeRego Products
DomtarSEL (Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.)
Doosan Portable PowerService Thread
Eaton CorporationShumaker
EGGER Wood ProductsShurtape Technologies
Enviva HoldingsSiemens Corporation
FilterEasyThe Timken Company
Glen RavenTW Garner Food Company
Grass AmericaTyson Foods
Gregory Poole Equipment CompanyUnifi
Honda Aircraft CompanyUnited Therapeutics
Honda Power Equipment Manufacturing IncVulcan Materials Company
Interflex Group IncWilliams Mullen

 

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