Owners of Nomaco and Nomacorc expanding Zebulon industrial park with new investment

Manufacturing magnate Marc Noël wants to expand on a plan championed by former Gov. Jim Hunt in the 1980s to attract new industry to the eastern part of the state through expansion of his newly-renamed Triangle East Business Park in Zebulon.

Noël, through various subsidiaries, owns about 120 acres in Zebulon, formerly called Zebulon Industrial Park, where two of his largest manufacturing plants for the Nomacorc wine cork production company and the Nomaco thermosplastic manufacturing firm are based.

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