Manufacturing and Supply Chain Report for Sept. 1, 2021

Industry news from GSA Business Report Click here to view this message in a browser window. Share with a friend: Sept. 1, 2021 Lightsey talks innovation at Upstate SC Alliance meeting When S.C. Commerce Secretary Harry Lightsey saw his first iPhone in 2007, he was seeing one of two in the world. At Upstate SC Alliance's midyear meeting, he exhorted the state's business community to keep up with today's pace of innovation, adding it's shifting in the direction of mobility, communications and biotech capabilities. (GSA Business Report) Logistics companies to deploy all-electric cargo haulers A&R Logistics, which recently completed an export facility in Moncks Corner, and Benore Logistic Systems plan to use money from a $1.3 million Environmental Protection Agency grant to replace eight diesel freight trucks with battery powered Peterbilt tractor trucks. (Charleston Regional Business Journal) Connect America to open in Greenville County Connect America, a company that provides products and services in digital health and monitoring, is investing about $1 million in a Fountain Inn property that will serve as a fulfillment center, creating 71 new jobs. (GSA Business Report) $1.3M renovation in downtown Greer underway Along Greer's newly-laid Trade Street, Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., has hung a swinging sign inlaid with a congressional seal outside his office — signaling to pedestrians that his Upstate hub is open for business and a blocked-off downtown is no more. (GSA Business Report) Grant to help S.C. defense industry combat cybercrime The S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce, the S.C. Manufacturing Partnership and the S.C. Department of Commerce will use the $775,829 grant to help S.C. companies fight cybercrime. (Columbia Regional Business Report) Connect with us: SC Biz News 35 Cessna Court, Suite A, Greenville, SC 29607   Unsubscribe/manage the emails you receive from us