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New homes from the low $200s now selling at Buffalo Creek from online homebuying pioneer

UNION, S.C., Dec. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Communities, Inc., a top 10 national homebuilder, an industry leader in online home sales, and the highest-ranked homebuilder on Newsweek's list of America's Most Trustworthy Companies 2023—announced that its Century Complete brand has opened a new community—Buffalo Creek—in Union, SC, located near other Century Complete communities in Spartanburg, Boiling Springs and Gaffney.

Showcasing a versatile lineup of single-family homes to suit a wide variety of needs and lifestyles, Buffalo Creek offers modern open-concept layouts with quick access to Buffalo Elementary School and Union's Main Street. The community contributes over 125 new homesites to Upstate South Carolina, helping to serve the market's need for more quality homes.

"We're excited to introduce Buffalo Creek," said Greg Huff, president of Century Complete. "Not only does this community feature affordable quality homes, but it offers a prime location within walking distance of local schools and an easy drive to Spartanburg. There's no better time than now to purchase a home at Buffalo Creek."

Learn more and view available homes at www.CenturyCommunities.com/BuffaloCreek.

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About Century Communities Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS) is one of the nation's largest homebuilders, an industry leader in online home sales, and the highest-ranked homebuilder on Newsweek's list of America's Most Trustworthy Companies 2023. Through its Century Communities and Century Complete brands, Century's mission is to build attractive, high-quality homes at affordable prices to provide its valued customers with A HOME FOR EVERY DREAM®. Century is engaged in all aspects of homebuilding — including the acquisition, entitlement and development of land, along with the construction, innovative marketing and sale of quality homes designed to appeal to a wide range of homebuyers. The Company operates in 18 states and over 45 markets across the U.S., and also offers title, insurance and lending services in select markets through its Parkway Title, IHL Home Insurance Agency, and Inspire Home Loans subsidiaries. To learn more about Century Communities, please visit www.centurycommunities.com.

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on Thursday unveiled plans for the new $55 million Union Medical Center replacement facility.

The combined replacement hospital and medical office building are designed to create a sustainable model for health care in Union County that centralizes physician practices, outpatient services and inpatient care, the health care system said in a news release.

Located along Highway 176 across from Union Industrial Park and four miles from the current hospital, the plans call for a new three-story, 99,600-square-foot building.

“Growing up in Union County, I know firsthand the essential role this hospital plays in supporting the health and wellness of families,” Dr. Natashia Jeter said in a news release. “Residents, community partners and health care providers could not be more excited for this investment in clinical services and renewed commitment to caring for this area.”

Spartanburg Regional purchased 48 acres for the new medical facility in 2015 following the acquisition of then-Wallace Thomson Hospital, which was constructed in 1955. This new campus sits in the heart of Union County, central to the residential population and the business community.

“Our new facility in Union County is designed for the future, anticipating the ever-evolving needs of patients and innovations in care,” Mark Aycock, chief operating officer of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, said in the release. “A variety of services will be available on this campus, including inpatient and outpatient care, emergency services, physician offices and telehealth visits.”

The hospital’s design includes large windows and open spaces with natural accents. Photographs of iconic Union County scenes will be featured, showcasing the hospital’s commitment to the community, the area, and its residents, the release said. Plans call for a chapel and healing garden.

Construction is scheduled to begin this spring, pending permit approval, the release said.

Medical services at the campus are to include emergency care, imaging, Gibbs Cancer Center infusion services, inpatient care, lab services, Bearden-Josey Center for Breast Health mammography services, outpatient services, pharmacy and primary care.

“Spartanburg Regional acquired the former Wallace Thomson Hospital to ensure that quality health care was not interrupted in Union,” Paul Newhouse, president of Union Medical Center, said in the release. “Today, the health care system announces an investment that will benefit generations to come by improving access to health services and wellness opportunities.”

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New Delhi: The Union home ministry on Monday told the Supreme Court that it doesn’t have accurate data on the extent of illegal immigration into India due to the secretive nature of such movements.

The ministry was responding to a December 7 order from the top court. “Illegal migrants enter into the country without valid travel documents in a clandestine and surreptitious manner. The detection, detention and deportation of such illegally staying foreign nationals is a complex ongoing process. It is not possible to collect accurate data of such illegal migrants staying in various parts of the country,” the ministry’s affidavit said.

It told the court that 14,346 foreign nationals were deported from India between 2017 and 2022, and 17,861 migrants who had entered Assam between January 1966 and March 1971 were granted citizenship.

Additionally, the affidavit mentioned that 32,381 individuals were declared foreigners by Foreigners Tribunals during the same period, with Rs 122 crores released for the functioning of these tribunals in the last five years, Bar and Bench reported.

The response came in the context of the Supreme Court’s inquiry into immigrants conferred Indian citizenship through Section 6A(2) of the Citizenship Act, 1955. The Court had sought these details while hearing a challenge to its validity.

As per Section 6A people who entered India between January 1, 1966, and March 25, 1971, and have been living in Assam, will be allowed to register themselves as citizens.

Section 6A of the Act was accepted by Parliament in tandem with the memorandum of agreement, popularly known as the Assam Accord, signed in 1985 between the leaders of the anti-foreigner agitation in the state and the Union and state governments to address the issue of immigrants entering the state without documents.

Several petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of this provision and concerns that it has worsened the problem of illegal immigration in Assam, Bar and Bench reported.

In its December 7 order, the court had asked the government to provide data on: the number of those who were granted citizenship under the relevant section of the Act; foreigners detected between 2017-2022; estimated inflow of illegal migrants into India including but not confined to Assam; number of foreigners’ tribunals set up by the Union government; cases disposed of by the tribunals; cases pending before them; average time taken for disposal of cases and the number of cases pending before the Guwahati high court on such issues.

It had also asked the government to mention the steps taken by the Union government on the administrative level to deal with illegal immigration into the territory of India, particularly North-Eastern States, the Bar and Bench report said.

The government in its response said that 100 Foreigners Tribunals were currently functioning in Assam and had disposed of 3,34,966 cases by November this year with 97,714 cases pending.

As of December 1, nearly 8,500 appeals against tribunal orders were pending before the Gauhati high court, the affidavit said.

The affidavit also highlighted 81.5% of fencing work, covering a total length of 210 km, in feasible areas of the Assam-Bangladesh border had been completed.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina workers represented by the Union of Southern Service Workers are asking the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration to take over health and safety enforcement from the state.

The union says the standards and inspections conducted by the state fail to protect workers and hold employers accountable.

Union representatives say the state took an average of four business weeks to investigate complaints compared to an average of 2.6 weeks for investigators in Virginia and 5.7 days in North Carolina.

They also suggest the agency isn’t conducting as thorough an investigation as its federal counterpart as the state found 67% of worksites to be compliant in 2022 versus 44% nationally.

Employers are also paying lower penalties for those violations at an average of $1,402 compared to nearly $2,000 in neighboring states.

“SC OSHA’s ongoing negligence has had enormous ripple effects across the state, leaving low-wage workers effectively fending for themselves in the face of major health and safety violations,” the organization said.

Organizers are also warning that the agency doesn’t have enough inspectors saying only 287 inspections were conducted for the more than 150,000 establishments.

“Even as the state’s population grows, SC OSHA’s staff of investigators has declined, and the agency has failed to ramp up its enforcement capacity,” organizers said.

The request for OSHA to take over inspections comes on the heels of a civil rights complaint filed by the group that claimed the state agency discriminated against workplaces with predominantly Black workforces “leaving thousands of low-wage black workers vulnerable to preventable injury and illness.”

In a statement, OSHA says:

South Carolina OSHA is a proud State Plan and is fully committed to its mission of making South Carolina a safe place to work and live for all employees. We are especially proud that we continue to have one of the lowest rates of employee injuries and illnesses in the nation among State Plans and Federal OSHA. It is important to note that SC OSHA follows Federal OSHA procedures in the enforcement of its State Plan. In addition to our enforcement program, we work cooperatively with employers, employees, associations and other groups to provide free safety and health training and consultation. USSW is one of the groups SC OSHA has been meeting and working directly with over the past year.

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Providing the company's luxury leather alternative Reishi™

UNION, S.C., Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, biotechnology company MycoWorks begins production at its world-class manufacturing facility in Union, S.C. Now capable of scaling-up to meet luxury industry demand, the company is set to grow millions of square feet of its leather-alternative material produced with the company's proprietary technology, Fine Mycelium™. This patented technology produces Reishi™, a biomaterial with unparalleled hand-feel, strength and durability – on par with calfskin leather, the industry gold standard.

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With partners including Hermès and General Motors, MycoWorks' progression into commercial-scale manufacturing is a sign of maturation for the biomaterials industry that the company continues its leadership in materials science. Per MycoWorks' market sizing, there are serious challenges facing the $164 billion leather market and $28 billion luxury leather market such as supply chain constraints and inferior product alternatives. Since 2010, demand for luxury leather increased 251 percent, while high-end hide production declined by 22 percent due to falling beef and dairy consumption. MycoWorks, and its hallmark material Reishi™, are answering these challenges with the world's first full-scale alternative leather factory, a revolution in the production of high-quality natural materials for the luxury industry.

The opening of the 136,000 sq. ft. factory also marks the world's largest mycelium material operation, a major step for the use of mycelium– the "root structure" of mushrooms. Starting first with leather, MycoWorks' Fine Mycelium™ technology can later be expanded into other applications. The plant was made possible through a $125 million Series C funding round in 2021 from Prime Movers Lab, SK Networks, Mirabaud Lifestyle Impact & Innovation Fund, DCVC Bio, Novo Holdings and several strategic customers and investors. With construction beginning in 2022, the project was delivered on-time and on-budget, running the same tray-based mycelium growth system successfully piloted in its California plant yet scaled to 100x the volume.

"As MycoWorks continues to lead in biomaterial innovation, we are thrilled to open this first-of-its-kind facility in South Carolina. This reality is thanks to our team of experienced manufacturing leaders and engineers from the consumer goods, automotive, food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries who have adapted robotic equipment and systems to handle our unique tray-based biomaterials process. In turn, they have enabled the first high-quality mycelium material product at scale, a feat which has never been accomplished until now," says Doug Hardesty, MycoWorks Chief Operating Officer. "We thank the city and citizens of Union for welcoming MycoWorks into its community."

MycoWorks' facility uses state of the art robotics, digital analytics, and AI resources to achieve high-caliber quality and supply chain systems for the company's customers in an entirely new manufacturing process. Using automated guided robots (AGRs), the company has automated 80% of its process, enabling MycoWorks' to reduce handling costs but maintain expert interactions where they are critical for quality assurance, achieving both high quality and low-cost production.

For the leather industry, MycoWorks' Union, S.C., facility is a breakthrough in supply chain management, providing full predictability, transparency, and provenance of high-quality natural materials while also reducing waste. Grown-to-spec, Fine Mycelium™ can be customized for thickness, weight and mechanical properties, allowing for an unprecedented level of control of a natural material, previously impossible via traditional agriculture.

Luxury fashion and automotive brands have eagerly awaited this opening to move collection design from prototyping and capsules to full-scale adoption. To date, Fine Mycelium™ has already been applied with great success to product categories from luxury handbags and footwear to vehicle interiors and home furnishings.

For Union, S.C.—population 30,000— MycoWorks' investment is reshoring production from an industry that primarily sources from Europe. Union has had a long history in textile manufacturing, and as the region is already home to leading automotive manufacturers, Fine Mycelium™ will allow other industries in the area and globally to closely collaborate on development. This centralization of biotechnology and manufacturing has long been a goal of South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, a dedicated supporter of bringing cutting-edge science and technology to the state.

"We are thrilled to welcome MycoWorks to Union and have been eagerly awaiting the start of production," said Governor Henry McMaster. "We are already seeing the growth that this opening is bringing to the immediate and greater communities in the area, including more jobs, housing, storefronts, and overall investments. MycoWorks is a fantastic addition to our portfolio of energy-efficient plants, and we look forward to their long-term impact in South Carolina."

To learn more about employment opportunities at MycoWorks, visit https://www.mycoworks.com/careers

For media inquiries, please contact mycoworks@bpcm.com

About MycoWorksIn 2013, co-founders Philip Ross and Sophia Wang formed MycoWorks, a San Francisco-based biomaterials company dedicated to bringing new mycelium-grown materials to the world. MycoWorks' patented Fine Mycelium™ technology, an advanced manufacturing platform and breakthrough in materials science, engineers mycelium during growth to form proprietary, interlocking cellular structures for unparalleled beauty, handfeel, strength and durability. The company's flagship material- Reishi™ - is a new category of material for the world's best luxury brands. For more information, please visit mycoworks.com and madewithreishi.com.

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