REHAU opens Alabama technical center to serve automotive industry
Made In Alabama News Center
September 2, 2015
CULLMAN, Alabama – European auto parts maker REHAU formally opened its first North American technical center at the company’s manufacturing facility in Cullman, creating a U.S. site to handle research and development functions that had been conducted primarily in Germany.
REHAU said the ultra-modern technical center, staffed with 45 engineers, will enable the company bundle production, engineering and development together in one location. The company invested $3 million to set up the 12,000-square-foot facility, which was on display today at a grand opening ceremony.
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The Unlikely Cities That Will Power the U.S. Economy
By Christopher Cannon, Patrick Clark, Jeremy Scott Diamond, and Laurie Meisler
Bloomberg Business
September 3, 2015
A decade ago, Richard Myers was the director of the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he enjoyed the fruits of a rich endowment and his pick of faculty members and graduate students. So he left behind some befuddled scientists when, in 2008, he left Palo Alto, Calif., for Huntsville, Ala., to launch an independent research lab, the HudsonAlpha Institute.
“‘My God, you’re leaving Stanford for Alabama?'” Myers recalls colleagues asking.
“‘What’s wrong with you?'”
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Oxford Pharmaceuticals starts construction on Alabama generic drug plant
Made In Alabama News Center
September 3, 2015
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Oxford Pharmaceuticals is closer to producing generic drugs in Alabama with a $29.4 million Birmingham plant that gives the state’s largest metro area a foothold in an important industry.
Company officials joined elected and economic development officials Wednesday for a ceremonial groundbreaking at the plant site, though it was clear by the construction going on behind them that general contractor Robins & Morton Inc. has already actually started work.
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