Pharmaceutical Manufacturer to Add 119 Jobs in Rowan County
State Grant Helps Company Expand in Kannapolis

RALEIGH – (3/26/12) Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that Ei Inc., a developer and manufacturer of topical pharmaceutical and skin care products, will expand its operations in Rowan County.  The company plans to create 119 jobs and invest $13.2 million during the next three years in Kannapolis.  The project was made possible in part by a $500,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund.

“North Carolina is known worldwide as a center for cutting-edge pharmaceutical and bioscience companies,” Gov. Perdue said. “Our state’s top-notch workforce and job training programs create a business climate where businesses can thrive in a global marketplace.”

Salisbury-based Taylor Clay Products Inc. has developed a concrete roof tile containing a catalyst that can help reverse air pollution.

Daimler Trucks North America has announced it will hire 1,100 workers to build long-distance trucks at its NC Freightliner plant as it bulks up after the recession.

Hitachi Metals North Carolina will add 65 full-time jobs and invest about $60 million at a ferrite magnet manufacturing plant in China Grove over the next four years, Gov. Bev Perdue's office announced today.

The company will produce neodymium magnets engineered primarily for use in hybrid and electric vehicles. The new plant will support the company's efforts to expand its magnet supply capacity to meet an increase in global demand.

Taylor Clay Products in Salisbury has developed a concrete roof tile that acts as a catalyst to absorb nitrogen oxides (NOx), which are precursors to air pollution. It is one of the first companies in the nation to use this technology.

Charles Taylor, the company’s owner, hired German native Berthold Mueller to develop the process at Taylor-Clay. Plans are under way to expand into other parts of the country as the company further develops the process.

Turnkey Technologies is currently seeking new employees.  For more information http://www.rowanworks.com/turnkey.aspx 

Tony Ward’s favorite quotes is from The Graduate: “One word: plastics.”
After a $1 million relocation, Ward’s TurnKey Technologies Inc. in Salisbury is ready for growth

A Michigan company will spend $2.6 million to add a second facility in Salisbury that will supply industrial packaging to large customers. Universal Forest Products Inc. will create 49 jobs in the process of opening the facility, says Jeff Richard, general manager of Salisbury operations. The company supplies wood and wood-alternative products to retail, construction, manufactured housing and industrial customers.

A startup company is considering building a $10 million cold-storage facility on land owned by Rowan County.

 SALISBURY — With 34 employees and an investment of $4 million, Infiltrator Systems has fulfilled the requirements of an incentive agreement with Rowan County.  The company hopes to hire even more people, President and CEO Roy Moore said Friday.

Announced industrial projects creating new employment oportunities. 

“The town of China Grove, Rowan County, the county EDC, and the State of North Carolina have all been very supportive of our efforts to expand here,” said Martin B. Foil, Jr., CEO of Tuscarora Yarns.  “It’s relationships such as these and Duke Power that optimize our opportunities for success in these challenging business conditions. Our China Grove location has served well for the past 25 years. Increasing our investment through new equipment, machinery along with new jobs will allow exciting opportunities at this new location.”

Vacant Rowan County plant gets new life, 40 jobs

Infiltrator Systems will spend $5 million on project in Salisbury park

A wastewater system manufacturer plans to begin production in March, bringing 40 jobs to a Salisbury building.

Infiltrator Systems Inc. will spend about $5 million to open the plastics molding operation in the former Service Supply Distribution facility.

The 56,000-square-foot building has been empty for two years. It is in Summit Corporate Center on the southwest side of the city, off Interstate 85.

A new Rowan County company plans to create 45 jobs and spend about $2 million to reclaim large-equipment tires and return them to their component ingredients.RDH Tire & Retread Co., located in Cleveland, and Missouri-based Hitec LLC created a joint venture in April 2008 called RDH Environmental.

RDH Tire retreads off the road (OTR) tires — a type of large tire used in heavy machinery and by the military. But those tires typically last only through two retreads before they are scrapped.