South Carolina is becoming a hub of economic development projects. Last week, the Chamber of Commerce recognized local manufacturers for best of class product development with the annual Crescent Awards program held here at SiMT. Additionally, SiMT has joined with SCMEP to offer advanced product marketing workshops to businesses across South Carolina. "Profit 101! Advanced Product Development Strategies" will visit Rock Hill, Greenwood, Charleston, FLorence, Aiken and Greenville. Exciting times! As our region and technical college continue to grow, the Rapid Prototyping Center at SiMT remains committed to delivering prototyping and manufacturing services to aerospace, automotive and product development companies everywhere. In the coming months we will complete a variety of upgrades to our prototyping equipment with a 3D Systems performance package that has been proven to double the speed of current SLS systems. We will certainly keep you posted on new developments!

The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and the Silver Crescent Foundation announce the 2009 Silver Crescent Manufacturer of the Year award winners. Celebrating the awards, the distinguished Salute to Manufacturing was held September 22 at the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology (SIMT) in Florence. The event honored numerous nominees and awarded the following organizations:

• Packaging Corporation of America 
  Small Manufacturer of the Year (100 or less employees)
• Sandvik/Valenite 
  Medium Manufacturer of the Year (101-499 employees)
• Alcoa Mt. Holly
  Large Manufacturer of the Year (500 or more employees)
  
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