CHESTER -- A Chester plant that produced raw material for the glass industry is being sold less than three years after breaking ground.
Minerals Technologies, the New York-based company that owns the facility, opted to close plant on Dec. 31 because of a lack of demand for the product the plant manufactured, said spokesman Rick Honey.
Located on a 15-acre site at the intersection of Ecology Lane and Beltline Road, the plant was designed to produce about 200,000 tons of Synsil Products per year.
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LADSON -- A Ladson company that makes armored military vehicles has received two new international contracts worth $123 million.
Force Protection says one contract worth $115 million calls for building 174 of the company's Cougar Mastiff vehicles for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense.
A second contract worth more than $8 million is with the Italian government for six Cougar troop transport vehicles and four Buffalo vehicles used to clear land mines.
CHARLOTTE -- Bojangles will open its first airport restaurant this spring at Charlotte/Douglas International, company officials said Friday.
Work started last month on the restaurant, which is scheduled to open in April. FDY, a food service management company, will operate the franchise.
Bojangles was founded in 1977 in Charlotte.