Keeping It Cool – From Store To Door

September 20, 2022, 09:00am EDT Sabbir Rangwala Senior Contributor, Forbes Long-haul and last-mile transportation of food, medicines, perishables and other temperature sensitive items relies on refrigerated trucks. Roughly 2% of North America’s ~38M trucks on the road today are refrigerated and generate $12B/year in freight delivery revenues (total trucking freight revenues... Read More

How a Winston-Salem Packager Quadrupled Revenue in 5 years

By Dan Barkin 08/15/2022 Julian Bossong, CEO of Winston-Salem-based South Atlantic Packaging, is well-known in Triad and Triangle business circles, having worked at and run a number of companies from banking to software to consulting. He gave me a tutorial in the packaging business that was also a window into our country’s pandemic-disrupted... Read More

KPI Integrated Solutions and Phononic Form a Strategic Partnership

Operations Design Leader KPI Integrated Solutions and Solid State Cooling Innovator Phononic To Build and Scale Innovative and Sustainable Cold Chain Solutions for Grocery eCommerce KPI Integrated Solutions and Phononic form a strategic partnership to answer the demand for cold chain solutions for North American grocery retail and food industries BELTON,... Read More

South Atlantic Packaging – Expanding to Dallas

South Atlantic Packaging’s new Dallas facility will feature 30-foot clear ceiling height, 18 dock doors, and very easy access to 1-635 and the local freeway networks. “We will be open soon and ready to serve current and future customers in the Southwest with the same quality and agility we provide in... Read More

Pickleball Park Planned for College Road

If rezoning is approved by the county commissioners, the social venue will include 23 courts, restaurant and bar March 15, 2022 “WILMINGTON — Merrette Moore has a vision to create a pickleball oasis – dozens of courts, food, drinks and a family-friendly place to socialize. A fan and player of pickleball,... Read More

Contego Medical Announces Hiring of Steve MacKinnon, Chief Commercialization Officer

RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Contego Medical has announced that Steve MacKinnon has joined the organization as their Chief Commercialization Officer. Mr. MacKinnon is an accomplished senior medical device executive with significant commercialization experience, a track record of success, and a history of driving growth by building and managing highly motivated sales teams. In... Read More

Phononic CEO wins Cleantech Entrepreneur Award

The Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC), an initiative of business, government, academic and nonprofit leaders focused on accelerating the growth of the statewide and regional cleantech economy, presented the Cleantech awards at a ceremony held on December 8th in downtown Raleigh’s historic Market Hall. “We are especially proud to have the... Read More

Leghorn Farmer Awarded the 2021 Young Farmers and Ranchers Achievement Award

The YF&R Achievement Award recognizes young farmers and ranchers in Arkansas who have excelled in their farming and ranching operations and exhibited outstanding leadership abilities. The award is designed for an individual or couple involved in full-time production agriculture with a majority of their income subject to normal production risk. 2021... Read More

South Atlantic Packaging Recognized Again Among “Fast 50” by Triad Business Journal

For the seventh consecutive year, the Triad Business Journal has recognized South Atlantic as a “Fast 50” company. The companies and their official rankings were announced at an event on Thursday, October 7 and will be featured in a special section of the business journal. The business journal presents the “Fast... Read More

Phononic Raises $50 Million Growth Financing from Goldman Sachs Asset Management to Scale Global Adoption of Sustainable Solid-State Cooling Solutions

Financing Allows Phononic to Continue to Meet Explosive Market Opportunity for Sustainable Solutions in Cooling and Refrigeration DURHAM, N.C. & NEW YORK — To support the global demand for Sustainable innovations that address climate change, Phononic, a global leader in solid-state cooling and heating technology, today announced that it has secured... Read More