Pickens County welcomes latest economic development announcement By GREG OLIVER THE JOURNAL PICKENS COUNTY – When JR Automation Technologies, LLC, based in Holland, Michigan and a global leader in custom automation solutions, agreed to establish operations in Pickens County in 2011, the deal was sealed with a basket of peaches. History repeated itself Monday at…
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com COUNTY — A new neighbor is moving into the “world-class neighborhood” that is the Pickens County Commerce Park. The company, era-contact GmbH, a world market leader in electrical railway couplings, announced last week that it will be locating its North American manufacturing headquarters in Pickens County. The $3.4 million…
Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co., Inc., one of the world’s largest producers of automatic fire sprinklers, is expanding its existing operations in Pickens County. The new development is expected to bring $23.1 million in capital investment and lead to the creation of 100 jobs. Reliable’s plant will be expanded by 150,000 square feet to bring their…
PICKENS COUNTY — era-contact, a German based company that produces couplings for electric railways, announced a new facility to be built in Commerce Park off U.S. 123 in Liberty. The space will serve as the company’s North American headquarters, bringing 45 new jobs to the Upstate as well as a $3.6 million investment to the…
By GREG OLIVER THE JOURNAL PICKENS COUNTY – For the second time in a little less than a month, a major economic development announcement took place at the Alliance Pickens headquarters in Liberty as a German based company announced Wednesday that the county would serve as its North American headquarters. The company, called era-contact, is…
PICKENS COUNTY — The 2015 Alliance Pickens Scholar Technician of the year was Steven Hoke Durham, with Nathan Brown and Sylvia Townsend also placing as finalists. Durham is a graduate of the Machine Tool Technology program at the Pickens County Career and Technology Center who also attended Daniel High School. He is currently approaching his…
COUNTY — Alliance Pickens, with input from Pickens County existing industry partners, the Pickens County Career and Technology Center (CTC), and Tri-County Technical College, developed the Scholar Technician initiative in 2012 as a work-force development activity and economic development program. This initiative focuses on the subject areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and…
Project Big Apple came to fruition Wednesday, with the announcement that the world’s leader in high-speed railway couplings is moving its North American manufacturing headquarters to Pickens County. County Council gave final approval to a fee-in-lieu of taxes agreement and other incentives in a special meeting at Alliance Pickens headquarters to make way for the…
By GREG OLIVER THE JOURNAL PICKENS COUNTY – John Cutchin currently serves as president of Palmetto Plating Co. Inc, a metal plating and finishing services company in Easley founded in 1964. But Cutchin also enjoys another distinction – the county’s first Scholar Technician. Cutchin also believes in giving back to the local community. For the…
Zero Connect, an assembler and distributor of fiber optic and copper cables, is establishing operations in Pickens County. The new development will create 72 new jobs and lead to an investment of more than $1.3 million. Zero Connect is a custom cable assembly manufacturer and supplier of off-the-shelf fiber and copper products for voice, data…
By GREG OLIVER THE JOURNAL PICKENS COUNTY – The economic development train is rolling right along in Pickens County these days and Zero Connect is the latest passenger to board. On Tuesday, the company announced they were establishing operations in the county, coupled with a $1.3 million investment to create 72 new jobs. Zero Connect…
An Iowa-based company that assembles and distributes fiber optic and copper cables is opening up operations in Easley and plans to create more than 70 jobs, the company founder said. Zero Connect had decided to locate its new facility in Greenville before meeting Ray Farley, director of Alliance Pickens, and other Pickens County officials, Larry…
By GREG OLIVER THE JOURNAL PICKENS COUNTY – Alliance Pickens Executive Director Ray Farley has witnessed the influx of economic development at the Pickens County Commerce Park. But like all economic officials, Farley has also seen time go by when no announcements of new industry or expansions occurred. Of course, Farley prefers to see economic…
By GREG OLIVER THE JOURNAL PICKENS COUNTY – A little more than 12 years from the day ground was broken for its new home at the Pickens County Commerce Park, Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co., Inc. will soon see dirt flying for a second time since officially beginning operations in 2006. The third generation company, which…
Staff Report gsanews@scbiznews.com Published April 28, 2016 Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. said it plans to add on to its facility in Liberty. The New York-based company specializes in manufacturing automatic fire sprinklers and said the new addition includes $23.1 million in new capital investment and will add 100 new jobs at the facility. This is the…
The following was excerpted from the April 15, 2016 New York Times Op/Ed. The article can be read in its entirety on the New York Times Website. By Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston April 15, 2016 CANDIDATES from both parties have been talking a lot about the loss of American jobs, declining wages and…
When a pilot starts a turbine- or piston-powered aircraft, chances are good the ignition system or its components were made at Champion Aerospace in Liberty. The business, with more than a century of aviation history and a brand well known to automotive parts consumers, has manufacturing operations and research and development labs in a 220,000-square-foot…
Ray Farley — executive director of Alliance Pickens, the economic development group in the county — anticipates an active economic development period once things fall into place at the Pickens County Commerce Park. Now home to manufacturers such as St. Jude Medical, Adidas-TaylorMade, KeyMark Inc., Tri-Tech USA and Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc., the Pickens…