For the first stop of the 2024 #CompetingToWin Tour, Jay Timmons and NAM Board Chair Kathy Wengel, along with SC Chamber of Commerce and SCMA, visited Milliken & Co in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to hear more about how innovation is driving their team forward.

South Carolina continues to be a manufacturing powerhouse!  The Manufacturing Madness contest from SCMA allows you to select your favorite product to win the title of “Coolest thing made in SC.” scmanufacturingmadness.com/vote/

It's time to start voting! Go to scmanufacturingmadness.com/vote to check out the many innovative products made right here in our state and cast your vote for the #CoolestThingMadeInSC!

What’s your favorite thing made in SC? SCMA is hosting the Manufacturing Madness contest which allows you to select #CoolestThingMadeInSC. Vote here: scmanufacturingmadness.com/vote/

30% of South Carolina jobs are tied to the more than 6,000 manufacturing facilities in our state. SCMA is looking to find the “Coolest Thing Made In SC.” Check out the nominations and vote for your favorite SC-made product! scmanufacturingmadness.com

The #StateOfMFG in America is strong and resilient—but under threat. The 2024 #CompetingToWin Tour is highlighting the urgent need to enact a manufacturing competitiveness agenda. Thanks to SC Chamber of Commerce, SCMA, MI MFG Association and Arizona Chamber for joining us!

Congrats to Lockheed Martin on the F-16 Block 70 delivery to Slovakia. We are proud to have such a world-class company producing the most advanced fighter jets that play a critical role in global security call SC home. SCMA Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette #CoolestThingMadeInSC

Slovakia is the first European country to receive F-16 Block 70 jets and last week's ceremony commemorated the delivery of Slovakia's first two aircrafts with more jets slated for completion by 2025. Lockheed Martin is a diamond in SC’s crown and one of our many businesses

Check out which products made it in the Top 16 Round for the #CoolestThingMadeInSC contest and vote this week for who should advance to the next round.

Time is running out to cast your votes in the Top 16 round of the #CoolestThingMadeinSC contest. Close to 100,000 votes have been cast this week, and the competition is neck and neck for who will move on to the Top 8! Vote now at scmanufacturingmadness.com/vote.

Check out who made the Top 8!

Thank you SC Senators Danny Verdin, Senator Sean Bennett 🌙, Mike Reichenbach for your enthusiasm for the cool products made in your communities!

Check out which products made it to the Top 4 of the #CoolestThingMadeInSC contest and vote for your favorite in this final round of competition!

Kicking off the 2nd session of the SC Manufacturing Leadership Program in Sumter, SC this morning with inspiring words from Greg Thompson, President & CEO, Thompson Construction Group. SCMA UofSC Darla Moore School of Business

Congratulations to Continental Tire on the opening of their new state of the art Americas’s Headquarters facility in Indian Land, SC. First locating here in 2009, the company’s foot print & impact throughout SC continues to grow and expand. Gov. Henry McMaster SCMA

Thank you, Governor Gov. Henry McMaster for helping us celebrate the #CoolestThingsMadeInSC! SCMA

Thank you, schousespeaker, for helping us celebrate the #CoolestThingMadeInSC! SCMA

Congratulations, Honda in South Carolina, for being named the 2024 #CoolestThingMadeInSC! Well deserved!

Fantastic visits today with 2 SCMA members from the lowcountry of SC ! Bosch Charleston Bosch USA employs 1,900 associates making various components for the automotive industry & KION North America employs 450 people producing industrial trucks & material handling systems.

Proud to celebrate Michelin USA’s 50th anniversary in South Carolina. This world-renowned company located their North American HQ in Greenville in 1974 and today employs over 9,000 associates and has an $8.2 Billion annual economic impact on SC. Gov. Henry McMaster