Flashback: Manufacturing Crown Beaten Down

Russell Corp. was once a crown jewel of Alabama manufacturing.

Text by chris mcfadyen

Career Notes, June 2018

Who's moving up?

Erica Joiner West

Making Textiles Roll Again

With relentless process control and a Made-in-America agreement with Walmart, Renfro Corp. is rolling back the NAFTA/CAFTA textile recession that rocked Alabama.

Text By BILL GERDES // Photos by CARY NORTON

Movers & Shapers, June 2018

Spotlight on Marengo, Hale, Sumter & Greene Counties

Blog: Transformative Ideas and Innovations Are Key to Moving the Economy

Alabama is surpassing much of the country in economic development and has the capacity to continue rising as a national leader.

Text By Steven Leath, president of Auburn University

Keeping it All Together

This Mobile company mastered fasteners, across industries, across 50 states. They make and deliver what locks it all in place — from bridges and towers to ships and Ferris wheels.

Text By EMMETT BURNETT // Photos by BRAD McPHERSON

At the Intersection of Trains, Trucks, Planes and Ships

Exchange between modes of transportation is critical to transportation productivity. Three key intermodal facilities keep goods moving into, out of and over Alabama.

Text by Charlie Ingram

Chef Missy Mercer

Explore two of Alabama’s best restaurants, you find a chef/owner who was the only female on the hot line at Spago, a master baker and a mother of twins with a degree in finance from Auburn.

TEXT By CARA CLARK // Photo by ART MERIPOL

Shaw Industries Finishing $184 Million Alabama Upgrade

Shaw Industries Group’s flooring plant in Andalusia, which makes fiber used in carpet, has been in the midst of a yearlong upgrade worth $184 million.

Text by Dave Helms

Auburn a Magnet for International Precision

Germany’s Berghoff Group chose Auburn for its U.S. precision manufacturing plant because it had the skilled workforce that could hone parts taking 130 hours to perfect.

Text By ALEC HARVEY // Photos by ROBERT FOUTS