Advanced Manufacturing

North Carolina is emerging as a leading state for electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and all of their parts. In 2023, EV and battery component manufacturers announced new and expanding operations with investments totaling nearly $10 billion.

Our state offers a variety of aerospace component manufacturers, wholesale suppliers, MRO facilities, and research and development hubs. Additionally, eight in-state military bases are home to airborne units or service military flight operations.

The life sciences clusters across North Carolina, comprising 830 companies, are truly unrivaled with specializations in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, gene and cell therapy, contract research, and agriculture technology.

With a dense ecosystem in additive manufacturing, technical textiles, coatings, advanced filtration systems, and composites manufacturers, North Carolina is a hotspot for the textiles and nonwovens.

North Carolina’s 82,000+ jobs in plastic and chemical manufacturing make up the sixth-largest industry workforce in the US. Our university system that annually graduates over 500 engineers in the field sets the foundation.

Home to 1,200+ food and beverage manufacturers in agriculture, confectionary production, and animal processing, see why 21 of the 50 largest food and beverage companies in North America have operations in North Carolina.