From the Chatham News + Record: PITTSBORO — Energy is an imprecise science. Experts generally agree about two-thirds of all electrical energy goes to waste — from the generation point at a power plant, through a series of transformations, and finally at the outlet in your house, energy is sacrificed Read more…
From the Chatham News + Record: Medical device manufacturers have come under intense scrutiny in the last year. Several scrambled at the pandemic’s start to supply COVID-19-specific products, with limited success. Just this month, federal regulators harangued a medical laboratory in Baltimore after hasty disregard for sanitation standards led to Read more…
Recap: COVID-19 Vaccine Briefing for Chatham Employers The recording of the webinar is available here. The webinar begins around two minutes in. Additional resources are listed at the bottom of the page. See below for a recap of the presentations from Mike Zelek, Chatham County Public Health Director and Kathie Read more…
From the Chatham News + Record: PITTSBORO — Gov. Roy Cooper paid a visit to the Gilero manufacturing facility in Pittsboro last Thursday to see how personal protective equipment is produced. Gilero, a medical device maker with a second location in Morrisville, shifted its production focus in April to help Read more…
The Chatham Economic Development Corporation is working in partnership with the East and West Chatham Chapters of the NAACP, the Chatham Chamber of Commerce, and other community and business organizations to identify Black-owned businesses in Chatham County. Our current list of Black-owned businesses in Chatham is available below. To join Read more…
Usually, Charter Furniture’s Siler City plant is hard at work with their employees producing the high-end furniture that decorates lobbies of well-known hotel brands across the country. Now, as it does for so many others, everything looks a little different. To keep their employees safe, Charter Furniture is in daily Read more…
Published by the Chatham News + Record SILER CITY — Along with other organizations in Chatham County, ranging from the nonprofit Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge to medical device manufacturer Gilero, Charter Furniture has begun to tailor its facilities and equipment to helping in the fight against COVID-19. The Siler City-based Read more…
Published by the Chatham News + Record SILER CITY — As people make runs to grocery stores, clearing shelves, fears of a shortage of food prevails. But in reality, workers in food and agriculture sector — that means agricultural production, food processing, distribution, retail and food service — are named Read more…
Published by the Chatham News + Record PITTSBORO — As companies and businesses around the world shift their production focus to making products designed to help fight the spread of COVID-19, a Pittsboro-based medical device manufacturer is doing the same. Kaitlyn Shaffer, the marketing communications manager for Gilero, said the Read more…
Published by the Chatham News + Record BEAR CREEK — As the state of North Carolina begins to “stay at home” as ordered by N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper last week, trucks and truck drivers are continuing their work to keep the supply chains moving — even as they face their Read more…