Innovation has always been America’s strong suit, and regional ingenuity was recently on display at the Charlotte Business Journal’s Energy, Inc.:

• A municipal smart grid system with street lights controlled by a nexgrid system that uses a General Microcircuits device.
• Carbon fiber

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Since Orville and Wilbur Wright first took flight in North Carolina, the state has been known for aviation. And Charlotte USA is at the heart of this growing cluster. Area firms such as Goodrich Corporation, General Dynamics and Armament Technical Products, Michelin Aircraft Tire Corporation,

Niagara Bottling Co. will open a $45 million water-bottling plant.  Madrona Specialty Foods will establish a manufacturing and distribution facility.  General Mills will establish a research operation focusing on vegetables and oats.  Monsanto will open a research and development facility. 

PreGel AMERICA, a U.S. subsidiary of the global specialty dessert ingredient company PreGel, opened a state-of-the-art facility in Concord, North Carolina in 2008. At the time, Marco Casol, president and CEO, commented that “The popularity of frozen novelties such as gelato in North America is

Story from CNBC.com, published 9/19/11 

Can an entire city experience something akin to "The Prius Effect?"

That's what organizers of an innovative effort in Charlotte, N.C., are hoping as they begin showing 82,000 workers in the biggest office towers downtown the near real-time tallies of

When Brazilian-based nonwoven fabrics manufacturer Companhia Providência began searching for the location of its first North American manufacturing facility in 2007, their checklist included all of the items an international advanced manufacturing company typically seeks in a