NC Manufacturing Council
Manufacturing Council Overview
Crafting the Future of Manufacturing in North Carolina
In 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 occur 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.
For NC Chamber Cornerstone Members
Manufacturing Council Access and Benefits:
Quarterly Council Meetings
Stay close to the issues, trends, and conversations shaping North Carolina manufacturing.
First-To-Know Intelligence
Receive timely Government Affairs updates on legislation and policies that may impact manufacturers.
Exclusive Industry Access
Connect with key players in manufacturing across North Carolina through council conversations.
Quarterly Regional Roundtables
Join regional conversations with top business leaders across industries and communities.
Research and Data
Access NC Chamber Foundation research on workforce, child care accessibility, infrastructure, and more.
Listing on Manufacturing Council Webpage
Receive recognition as an NC Manufacturing Council member on the council webpage.
Upcoming Council Conversation
2026 Q2 Manufacturing Council Webinar - Who Trains the Next Generation When Your Experts Are Gone? Scaling Institutional Knowledge With AI
If your plant is one retirement away from losing knowledge you can’t get back, this is the session to attend. AI can’t replace 30 years of earned knowledge. But it can do something just as valuable: capture what your best technicians know and scale it across every shift, every site, and every new hire who comes next. Getting that distinction right is what separates a technology investment that quietly fails from one that becomes load-bearing infrastructure for your workforce.
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Advocacy for NC Manufacturing
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.
The NC Chamber works closely with our manufacturing members to identify solutions to their most pressing problems, including the skills gap, and to strengthen the long-term competitiveness of this essential industry.
NC Manufacturing Tour
NC Manufacturing Tour
The NC Chamber coordinates the NC Manufacturing Tour to educate the public and today’s students about the modern world of manufacturing. Participating manufacturers can receive local and statewide media opportunities, a communications toolkit, and recognition in NC Chamber channels.
Learn More About Membership
Ready to access the state’s premier cross-functional network of manufacturers?
The Manufacturing Council is available to NC Chamber members at the Cornerstone level or above, connecting manufacturers with insight, advocacy, and peer leadership across North Carolina.
Member Stories, Services and Connections
NC Manufacturing Council Member Spotlight
Baxter International
Baxter touches the lives of millions of people around the world every day. Its products and therapies can be found throughout hospitals and clinics, as well as advancing patients’ care in their homes.
Learn about Baxter
Siemens
As a leading technology company, Siemens empowers customers to meet the great challenges of our time through businesses and local organizations geared toward delivering value for customers.
Learn about Siemens
Council Tool Company
Council Tool offers a premier line of heavy-duty, American-made tools for forestry, wildfire response, law enforcement, landscaping, and other hands-on industries.
Learn about Council ToolManufacturing Council Members
Our NC Manufacturing Council Members
- Albemarle Corporation
- ALMAC
- American Honda Motor Co.
- American Zinc Recycling/Horsehead Metal Products, Inc.
- Amgen
- Armacell
- Arauco
- Ashley Furniture Industries
- ASSA ABLOY
- Badin Business Park - ALCOA
- Barnhardt Manufacturing Company
- BASF
- Baxter International
- Bibey Machine Company
- Biogen
- BioMerieux
- Boon Edam
- BorgWarner Turbo Systems
- BSH
- Butterball
- Campbell Soup Company
- Case Farms
- Caterpillar, Inc
- Charlotte Pipe & Foundry
- Chemours
- Coca-Cola Consolidated
- Columbia Forest Products
- Corning
- Council Tool Company
- CSL Seqirus
- Cummins
- Custom Patch Hats
- Daimler Trucks
- Denso Manufacturing Tennessee
- Duke Energy
- Eaton Corporation
- Electricities
- Electrolux
- Eli Lilly
- Fifth Third Bank
- Geosyntec Consultants
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Giland
- Glen Raven
- Grady-White Boats
- Gregory Poole Equipment Company
- Haeco Americas
- Hitachi ABB Power Grids
- Honda Aircraft Company
- Honeywell
- House of Raeford Farms
- Hyster-Yale Materials
- Industrial Automated Systems (IAS)
- International Paper
- ITG Brands
- Johnson & Johnson
- John Deere
- Klingspor Abrasives
- Lenovo
- Leviton
- Lyndon Steel Company
- Mallinckrodt
- Mars
- McMichael Mills
- Merck
- Merz Aesthetics
- Mountaire Farms
- National Gypsum Company
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals
- Novonesis
- Nucor
- Nutrien
- Parker Poe Adams & Berenstein LLP
- Packrite
- PepsiCo
- Perdue Farms
- Pilgrim's
- Pfizer
- Pine Hall Brick Company
- PMI Global Services
- Positec USA
- PPG Industries
- Prestage Farms
- Procter & Gamble
- Regulator Marine
- Reynolds American
- Sandvik Coromant Inc.
- SEL (Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.)
- Shurtape Technologies
- Siemens Corporation
- Siemens Energy
- Smith Anderson
- Smithfield Foods
- Southeastern Container Inc.
- SteelFab, Inc.
- TCOM Corp.
- TE Connectivity
- Trane Technologies
- TW Garner Food Company
- Tyson Foods
- United Therapeutics
- Universal Leaf North America
- VF Corporation
- Volvo Trucks & Mack Trucks
- Vulcan Materials
- Williams Mullen
- Wilsonart LLC
- Zoetis