RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – As North Carolina’s unemployment rate continues its steady decline, employers across the state are simultaneously ramping up their hiring efforts. There are currently tens of thousands of jobs on offer across the Triangle region alone.
According to the latest data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the state’s unemployment rate hovered around 5% in April, reflecting only a slight drop from the previous month. Still, that figure is 8.5 percentage opoints lower than a year ago, when unemployment hit 13.5%.
But the pace of hiring varies widely from sector to sector. April’s most significant job gains came from manufacturing, construction, leisure and hospitality services, information technology, and education and health services, per NC Department of Commerce data. At the same time, professional and business services, trade, transportation and utilities, government, financial activities, mining and logging, and other services saw decreases
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Trio Labs has raised $3,820,669 in equity from 36 investors, according to an SEC filing.
The company, based in Research Triangle Park, fabricates precision metal parts through its proprietary processes that allow manufacturers to scale quickly and effectively from rapid prototyping to full production, and uses a patent-pending technology, Resin Infused Powder Lithography (RIPL).
The aim is to deploy their technology to change how medical devices are manufactured, delivering a next generation of devices to the marketplace that will increase patient care and improve patient outcomes.
“Additive Manufacturing has long been a favorite of design engineers for its ability to produce complex geometries,” reads the company’s website. “RIPL brings this design flexibility to a production level, allowing for previously impossible devices to be made in high volume.”