Leading North Carolina Industries by Employment:
11% Industrial machinery and equipment 11% Food and kindred products 8% Transportation equipment 8% Chemicals and allied products 7% Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products
Largest North Carolina Manufacturers by Employees:
IBM Corp. (Research Triangle Park) - 8,000 SAS Institute, Inc. (Cary) - 5,599 Smithfield Foods (Tar Heel) - 5,000 Lowes Cos., Inc. (Mooresville) - 3,500 Fleet Readiness Center East (Cherry Point) - 3,400
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North Carolina Counties with the Most Manufacturing Jobs:
Mecklenburg - 65,649 Guilford - 53,149 Wake - 45,774 Catawba - 31,037 Durham - 30,295
North Carolina Cities with the Most Manufacturing Jobs:
Charlotte - 54,318 Greensboro - 30,693 Raleigh - 17,735 Winston-Salem - 16,088 Research Triangle Park - 15,259
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