Gov. Cooper celebrates North Carolina’s manufacturing sector with proclamation

Oct. 10—RALEIGH — Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed Oct. 2-8 North Carolina Manufacturing Week.

In Robeson County, the place extra jobs are within the manufacturing sector than some other job sector, the governor’s message is appreciated.

“North Carolina manufacturing is prospering and placing more cash within the pockets of day by day North Carolinians who make up probably the most gifted and expert workforce on the earth,” Cooper mentioned.

Boasting the fifth-largest manufacturing economic system in the USA, which grew 14% final yr, and the biggest manufacturing workforce within the southeast, manufacturing stays important to the success of each sector of North Carolina’s economic system.

“With greater than 10,700 companies contributing greater than $122 billion to our economic system and nonetheless rising, we’re making pc chips, electrical college buses, farm tools, life saving medicines and so many extra merchandise which can be being shipped right here and all over the world. We could be proud after we see the Made in North Carolina label.”

In accordance with the economists on the Labor and Financial Evaluation Division of the state’s Commerce division, for each $1 spent in manufacturing, $1.80 is generated for North Carolina’s economic system.

Producers account for practically one-fifth of the state’s financial output.

In 2021, 95% of North Carolina exports consisted of $31.6 billion value of manufactured merchandise together with prescription drugs, chemical substances, non-ferrous metals, semiconductors, aerospace elements, and textiles.

Of North Carolina’s recording breaking yr for financial growth bulletins final yr, manufacturing represents 67% of all new, relocation, and enlargement tasks with greater than 14,690 new jobs and investments exceeding $8.6 billion.

“Our financial success is supported by our manufacturing legacy,” mentioned N.C. Commerce Secretary Machelle Baker Sanders. “Our enterprise local weather, central East Coast location, the gifted and various workforce of 468,000 North Carolinians, and our dedication to additional growing that world-class workforce will proceed to draw rising producers from throughout the globe.”