Exports keep Albany factories thriving
Via Albany Dougherty Economic Development Commission, sourced from Global Atlanta.
ALBANY, Ga. – An aircraft manufacturer teaches maintenance to a visitor from Cameroon. A chemical firm affixes Portuguese labels to Brazil-bound tubs. Across town, posters at a health products factory pitch their soothing powers in German.
All of these stories were playing out during a recent Global Atlanta tour of Albany with Next Generation Manufacturing, the southwest Georgia city better known for its fields than factories.
Here, MillerCoors beer is brewed, Mars chocolate is mixed and paper products…