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speak highly of this latest expansion: “This site provides an opportunity for Northrop Grumman to be closer to its U.S. Army and Navy UAV customers, to take advantage of the local, well-trained workforce that has long supported the corporation and its Navy programs, and to operate a costcompetitive manufacturing center that can expand to accommodate future growth in the company’s unmanned systems business,” said Marty Dandridge, then executive vice president of Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems, at the expansion announcement. Columbus, MS is home to another world leader in the defense industry—American Eurocopter, a subsidiary of EADS North America. This facility produces light utility helicopters for the U.S. Army, which extends the company’s 20-year history as a supplier of helicopters to law enforcement agencies across the U.S. Martin, L-3 Vertex Aerospace, Marc Paganini, president and Raytheon Aerospace and Airborne CEO of American Eurocopter, said Systems, ATK Alliant Tech Systems during the 2003 announcement, and others have found the work“American Eurocopter is force, research institutions, propleased that it has found business climate and can-do an ideal location for attitude in the state to expanding its activities be among the best in the United States in to propel their Mississippi’s Golden companies into a Triangle. This new successful future. plant will play a vital Additionally, a flexirole in the manufacturble, yet aggressive ing and assembly of the approach to busiworld’s most modern General Electric Aviation broke ground ness recruitment helicopter product line, last summer in Mississippi on a commer- allows Mississippi to cial and military jet engine component serving both the com- facility slated to be one of the most customize incentives mercial and homeland sophisticated manufacturing facilities the and financing procompany operates worldwide. security markets.” grams to meet the Northrop Grumman and Ameri- needs of each individual project. can Eurocopter are just two of the For more information about numerous aerospace and defense bringing the Mississippi advantage related companies that call Missis- to your aerospace or defense-related sippi home. Rolls-Royce, Lockheed business, visit www.mississippi.org. North Carolina: Energy Cooperatives Power the Industry North Carolina Touchstone Energy cooperatives deliver reliable power to more than 2.5 million members in 93 of the state’s 100 counties. As private, independent entities, the 26 cooperatives provide energy at cost to businesses and homes from the mountains to the coast. In addition to residential usage, the cooperatives specialize in helping businesses relocate to North Carolina with a complete portfolio of economic development services. They have played a key role in bringing more than 14,600 jobs and $2.2 billion of economic development to the state. And with a supportive infrastructure already in place, the cooperatives give companies a powerful edge before and after they open their doors for business. The cooperatives’ economic development team is comprised of a host of local professionals specially trained to put the resources compaA S P E C I A L A D V E RT I S I N G S E C T I O N O F B U S I N E S S FA C I L I T I E S Laurens County SOUTH CAROLINA Location, workforce, infrastructure, transportation and training drive our industrial opportunities. Go to www.laurenscounty.org let us help you get there. LAURENS COUNTY Development Corporation 864.939.0580 #1501 01at www.BusinessFacilities.com 32 PHOTO CREDIT: ROLLS-ROYCE http://www.mississippi.org http://www.BFLiveXchange.com http://www.laurenscounty.org http://www.laurenscounty.org http://www.laurenscounty.org http://www.BusinessFacilities.com

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