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Twenty-plus-year Blair-HSM employee Joe Hall shaves millimeter-wide pieces of metal off an aluminum drag brake, used in military planes. (Port City Daily photo/Johanna F. Still)
SOUTHEASTERN N.C. –– A group representing nearly 30 manufacturing companies, including a handful of the largest employers in the region, has banded together to form an official alliance.
The Cape Fear Manufacturing Sector Partnership is the first of its kind in the region and possibly the second in N.C.
Its novelty is in an industry-driven structure, as opposed to a public-private partnership or public-led organization with business participation, according to Erin Easton. Manufacturers credit Easton with spearheading the concept into reality.