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Mar 27, 2020 | COVID-19 Community Outreach
The safety, health and well-being of our community is of the utmost importance during this especially challenging time. We all play an important role in slowing the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and hopefully limiting the impact on local and regional business functions.
In response to the COVID-19, we
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Mar 12, 2020 | Sumter Original Brewery Establishing Operations In Sumter County
$6.5 million investment will create 20 new jobs
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Sumter Original Brewery, a local craft brewery, today announced plans to establish operations in Sumter County. The company’s $6.5 million investment will create 20 new jobs.
The first-of-its-kind in the county, Sumter Original Brewery will brew beers using
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Dec 19, 2019 | JEMISON METALS EXPANDING SUMTER COUNTY OPERATIONS
Thursday, December 19, 2019
More than $14 million investment to create 57 new jobs
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Jemison Metals, a leading supplier of carbon flat-rolled products, today announced plans to expand operations in Sumter County. The more than $14 million investment is expected to create 57 new jobs.
Since establishing operations in Sumter,
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Dec 11, 2019 | Sumter Featured In Where To Retire Magazine
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Sumter Featured in Where to Retire Magazine
Houston, TX (Dec. 11, 2019) – Sumter, SC, has been selected as a top retirement destination by Where to Retire, the only magazine in America geared toward helping people with retirement relocation decisions. Sumter is profiled in a feature titled
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Dec 3, 2019 | SKF expanding Sumter County operations $26 million investment to create 10 new jobs
SKF expanding Sumter County operations
$26 million investment to create 10 new jobs
COLUMBIA, S.C. – SKF, a global leader in bearing manufacturing, today announced plans to expand its Sumter County operations. The company’s $26 million investment is projected to create 10 new jobs.
SKF manufactures bearings of
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Nov 14, 2019 | Sumter’s Bates Middle School earns national STEM certification
Four years ago, Bates Middle School offered the same handful of electives - physical education, band, art and keyboarding - that you could find in a school a generation ago.
As Principal Ayesha Hunter describes it, by now tapping into the skills and talents of its teachers and using community
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Oct 4, 2019 | Recover. Return. Grow.: NOVA Molecular Technologies Inc. marks 5 years in Sumter
NOVA Molecular Technologies Inc. gets the sticky out.
NOVA's high-value solvent recovery and return program is like lighter fluid to tape residue. The Sumter-based manufacturing company takes solvent, messy, hazardous, waste that companies have used to make their products, and sends it through fractional distillation columns that clean it.
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Aug 8, 2019 | Local Economic Development Professionals Earn Prestigious Certification
Brian Rauschenbach and Eliza Buxton of Sumter Economic Development and TheLINK Economic Development Alliance have both earned the prestigious title of SC Certified Economic Developer (SCCED). Brian and Eliza were two out of only 10 professionals throughout SC that were selected for the SC Economic Developers' Association's Advanced Symposium
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Jul 17, 2019 | Sumter building to attract new industry, officials say
SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. — State, county and city officials are among a group of people working to bring new industry to Sumter.
A new spec building is a part of their vision for growth. It will be 50,000 sq. ft. (expandable to 100,000 sq. ft.) and located in the Black River
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Jun 19, 2019 | SC Ports Graduates 25 Port Ambassadors
CHARLESTON, SC – JUNE 19, 2019 – South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) recognizes 25 delegates for completing the 2018-2019 Port Ambassador Program, which provides participants a deep understanding of the connection between the Port of Charleston and South Carolina’s thriving business community.
The 10-month Port Ambassador Program immerses participants in
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