Gray Quoted in U.S. News Manufacturing Article
Stephen Gray, CEO of Gray Construction, was quoted in a recent article in U.S. News on the revival of the manufacturing industry. The article discusses the factors that are making the U.S. more attractive for companies to locate such as: government policies, cost cutting, globalization and America’s demise being greatly exaggerated. In the article, Stephen speaks on the strong upside to globalization. “I see continuing opportunity,” he says. “In the construction market, we are seeing a definite trend of foreign companies locating to the United States.”

Stephen Gray, CEO of Gray Construction, was quoted in a recent article in U.S. News on the revival of the manufacturing industry. The article discusses the factors that are making the U.S. more attractive for companies to locate such as: government policies, cost cutting, globalization and America’s demise being greatly exaggerated. In the article, Stephen speaks on the strong upside to globalization. “I see continuing opportunity,” he says. “In the construction market, we are seeing a definite trend of foreign companies locating to the United States.”
Gray Construction, ranked 3rd among the U.S. Top Green Contractors in Manufacturing Plants Construction, has built numerous projects for international customers in the U.S. including Austal USA, BMW Manufacturing Corp., Flex Films (USA), Inc., Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Siemens Energy, Inc. and Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. The nationally ranked engineering, design and construction firm currently has several large projects, mostly located across the South, that are underway or recently completed including: a Caterpillar, Inc. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; a Caterpillar, Inc. manufacturing facility near Athens, Ga.; and a Whirlpool plant in Cleveland, Tenn.
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