manufacturing

Katherine Shayne didn’t necessarily see entrepreneurship on her career roadmap. But she was finishing up her master’s at the University of Georgia and working on research at the UGA New…

While Mativ isn’t a startup by any means, it is a “new kid” on the manufacturing block, having been created earlier this year out of a merger of Neenah and…

Zeba Parkar is proof you can build a career out of your hobby. She initially moved to the US and landed in the Midwest for a Ph.D. in material sciences…

We’ve come a long way from the time of makeshift masks and watered-down hand sanitizer that plagued the spring of 2020.  And while vaccine rollouts have brought new hope for…

This software firm is getting ready to further disrupt the construction market after landing $190 million in funding. Meet Prescient, a Charlotte-based digital design-build company that is leveraging offsite manufacturing and lightweight…

Forecasting has always been weird science at best, and risky business at worst, even though predicting future trends based on historical data seems like the smart thing for a company…

In fall 2014, entrepreneur Hans Utz spent long days in the ICU, watching over his newborn who suffered from a rare congenital heart defect. Despite excellent care from the medical staff, Utz…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported nearly 2.8 million non-fatal workplace-related injuries and illnesses occurred in 2017. Within the manufacturing industry, 40 percent of those workplace injuries happen in the first…