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In a commercial landscape defined by rapid change, how do successful organizations stay ahead? The 2026 Guilford College Business Summit operates on the premise that institutions navigate uncertainty most effectively through collaboration, innovation, and shared investment in partnerships.
This year’s summit focuses on deep organizational resiliency. We have convened a diverse panel of executives from the manufacturing, technology, and government sectors to discuss how they manage business uncertainties within their respective industries. Our speakers will explore resiliency measures and how uncertainty impacts the overall organization, offering strategies for sustaining growth despite external pressures.
Join regional manufacturing leaders for a half‑day workshop focused on innovation, automation, and competitive growth designed for operations, production, engineering, maintenance and HR professionals.
Learn how AI, emerging technologies, supply‑chain strategies and workforce development can help you stay ahead and prepare for the future.
Hear expert insights from NC State University, Surry Community College, ApprenticeshipNC and regional workforce partners, while connecting with local manufacturers and industry professionals.
Manufacturing USA continues to pursue its mission of strengthening U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing by connecting people, ideas, and technology to solve industry-relevant challenges. The network’s institutes serve as hubs for key technology areas including automation, biomanufacturing, and cybersecurity, ensuring that what is invented here can also be built here.
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Local News and Announcements
Technimark Acquires Rage Custom Plastics to Expand Growing Healthcare Operations:
Technimark, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of custom, highly engineered injection-molded components for medical, consumer, and specialty industrial applications, has acquired Rage Custom Plastics ("Rage"), a US-based provider of blow and injection-molded plastic products focused on medical and consumer healthcare markets.
The acquisition of Rage strengthens Technimark's increasing presence in the high-growth medical and consumer healthcare markets, expands the Company's domestic manufacturing footprint into the Mid-West and Mid-Atlantic regions, and enhances the Company's value-added blow molding capabilities.
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Twenty years after its founding, Core Technology Molding is about to start production in its first owned home as honors come in for the company.
The first injection-molded parts are scheduled to be made at the new $28 million, 100,000-square-foot building that is still being finished this week, founder and CEO Geoff Foster said during an informal tour of the new home for the company.
The facility, built on a greenfield site at 5670 Millstream Road in southeastern Greensboro, is three times the size of the company’s current site on the south campus of the Gateway Research Park, a joint venture of UNC-Greensboro and N.C. Agricultural and State University.
Bluegrass rocked the Seagrove Fiddlers Convention at Southwestern Randolph High School, drawing about 350 people after the convention had outgrown its former home at Seagrove Elementary School.
The Seagrove Fiddlers Convention welcomed spectators and performers for its 71st meeting on March 21 for youth and adult competitions, a cake auction, and a 50-50 raffle sponsored by the SWRHS Future Farmers of America.
Sandy Hatley of Seagrove, one of the organizers, said that proceeds from the event go back to Southwestern Randolph High School chorus, golf team and FFA, which all helped with the event.
Charis Roth placed first in the youth fiddler category, to her surprise. Charis said she had been practicing fiddle for a year and classical violin for five years, and it was difficult to make the switch.
Randolph Health has an interim CEO who was appointed last week after leadership changes in the health system that operates it, and officials are denying online speculation that an executive was escorted from the property.
Dr. William Keates was named to the post effective this past Wednesday. The CEO had been Tim Ford. No explanation was given for the change.
According to an online medical profile, Keates specializes in internal medicine and has practiced for more than 20 years.
The health system said that “above all, Randolph Health remains focused on what matters most — providing quality care to our patients and the community we serve."
Randy's Restaurant is Open and Selling Comfort BBQ:
A man who owns two restaurants in Davidson County is spreading his business’s footprint, opening a restaurant in Asheboro.
Randy Kennedy, owner of Randy’s Restaurant on U.S. 64 in Lexington and a second Randy’s in Welcome in northern Davidson County, opened a Randy’s Restaurant in the former Dixie III building at 715 E. Dixie Drive on Feb. 24.
“We cannot thank you enough!,” said a social media post announcing the Asheboro opening. “The love and support you have shown us during our first week has been overwhelming! Thank you for your understanding & patience as we get our staff trained to serve you.”
Dixie III was a popular restaurant known for its home cooking before it closed in September 2021.
Whatley, GOP leaders advocate for Trump administration education tax credit in High Point:
Less than a week after the primary election, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley is continuing to campaign, making a stop in the Triad alongside other top GOP leaders.
He appeared at Phoenix Academy in High Point for a press conference led by U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, who stopped in the Tar Heel state to promote the Trump administration's Education Freedom Tax Credit, which aims to expand school choice.
"We need to make sure that this state is following President Trump's lead in opportunity scholarships," Whatley said.
McMahon described the initiative as "the largest federal expansion of school choice in history so far."
The current stage of development for the four steps of the dedicated system Customs and Border Protection is building for IEEPA tariff refunds.
For the first step, importers must submit refund requests through a dedicated claim portal, which will trigger two validation measures to ensure all required information is provided and accurate. Should an entry fail to meet specifications, an importer can review any issues and resubmit, in some instances via a separate claim.
Once a request is submitted and validated, the system will remove all IEEPA tariffs from entries and run standard validation procedures to calculate total duties owed without the IEEPA levies. This process is in the earliest stage of development of the four stages, with the agency saying it is currently focused on the automated entry summary update process.
After entries clear mass processing, the system will automatically schedule liquidation for “a specified number of days” from the acceptance date, although it did not disclose what that number would be. During this stage, the system will also update underlying entries to reflect the new total duties paid and calculate interest.
Following liquidation, entries will move forward to the CAPE-specific refund process, which will consolidate refunds by liquidation date and electronically transfer funds back to importers.
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