Month: October 2022

Lou Kennedy, CEO and owner of Nephron Pharmaceuticals, will receive InnoVision’s 2022 Dr. Charles Townes Individual Achievement Award at the virtual InnoVision Awards Ceremony on Nov 15.

The Charles Townes award honors individuals who have exhibited a sustained commitment to the advancement of technology and the community through their technology-oriented and innovative contributions, according to an InnoVision Awards news release. Kennedy is a recognized leader and an advocate for innovation — at Nephron Pharmaceuticals, in the South Carolina bioscience community, and within the state overall, the release stated. 

Read the entire story from the Columbia Regional Business Report here.

By Jordan Lawrence
jordan@lexingtonchronicle.com
Nephron Pharmaceuticals hosted a Manufacturing Day event Oct. 7, offering local elementary and high school students a preview of what a job in manufacturing could do for them and a look at the progress on its 400,000-square-foot nitrile glove plant.

For the second straight year, Creators Wanted, a traveling escape-room-style exhibit looking to attract people entering the workforce to consider manufacturing, stopped at the company’s West Columbia headquarters. This time, it did so in the parking lot of Nephron Nitrile, which should soon start producing a lot of the protective gloves used to handle hazardous substances.

During a media tour of the facility, Nephron CEO Lou Kennedy — wearing a cowboy-style hardhat emblazoned with the logo of her alma mater, the University of South Carolina — said the plant’s first line, a short segment of which was installed in the last five or six weeks, will be finished by Nov. 7, with the company beginning to sell gloves produced at the facility by Dec. 1.

Read the entire story from the Lexington County Chronicle here.

If you’re looking for a highly rewarding, well-paying career, you’re in luck.

Today is MFG Day, when manufacturers in South Carolina and across the country open up their doors for events and tours. And they do that because they’re very eager to hire you.

With just under 800,000 manufacturing jobs open right now nationwide, our industry is on the lookout for talented, ambitious people to join our workforce to become the future of manufacturing.

Nephron Pharmaceuticals, for example, is always hiring and is excited to welcome new team members, interns or apprentices over the next year.

If you’re looking to make products that save lives, such as the medications and devices, or work with cutting-edge tools, such as robotics, augmented reality, 3D printing and more that are used across the industry, manufacturing is your chance to turn that dream into reality.

But don’t just take our word for it.

The National Association of Manufacturers and The Manufacturing Institute’s Creators Wanted Tour, in partnership with the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, FactoryFix and Autos Drive America, is currently at Nephron Nitrile in West Columbia.

The Creators Wanted Tour seeks to inspire, educate and empower more Americans to find a career in modern manufacturing. If you aren’t already signed up to participate, you can find out how at creatorswanted.org.

Come see what modern manufacturing is all about. Your future as a creator awaits.

LOU KENNEDY
President, CEO and owner
Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation
West Columbia

JAY TIMMONS
President and CEO
National Association of Manufacturers
Washington, D.C.
 

Last week was a milestone for the Creators Wanted Tour—it marked the first time the nationwide initiative returned to a community and got to see how perceptions of manufacturing had changed since its first visit.

Welcome back: The Creators Wanted Tour, a joint venture of the NAM and its workforce development and education partner, The Manufacturing Institute, returned to host and champion sponsor Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation in West Columbia, South Carolina, in the 11th stop of the roadshow, which took place Oct. 4–7.

Happy MFG Day! On MFG Day, Oct. 7, Creators Wanted campaign co-chair Lou Kennedy, president, CEO and owner of Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation, and her team hosted the tour stop’s premier event at its new Nephron Nitrile Glove Factory. The 426,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open next month and will produce nitrile gloves used in hospitals and sterile rooms globally.

Read and watch videos the entire story here.