North Bay Business Journal

  • California getting majority of electric vehicle VC, study finds

    January 9th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — A December report by the Next 10 public policy group showed that California brought in $840 million in venture capital invested in electric vehicle technology, 80 perent of the U.S. total.

  • TricorBraun wine group packs for Fairfield

    November 14th, 2011

    BENICIA — The wine division of St. Louis-based packaging supplier TricorBraun plans to move its Northern California distribution facility to a larger, automated distribution facility in Fairfield early next year.

  • G3 expands Ukiah capsule plant

    September 19th, 2011

    UKIAH — The cluster of wine bottle capsule plants is expanding again. G3 Enterprises installed a new polylaminate closure line at its production facility in Ukiah. Sparflex will relocate production to Benicia upon completion of a capsule facility there.

  • Benicia scores green auto operation

    September 19th, 2011

    BENICIA –  City and county officials got a tour last week of Benicia’s first foray into green technology. Startup zero-emission car developer Coda Automotives of Santa Monica has inked a deal with long-time Benicia automotive processing company Amports Inc. to do the final assembly on its flagship zero-emission cars. Coda CEO Phil Murtaugh led a [...]

  • TenCate to consolidate 100 employees in Fairfield

    September 5th, 2011

    FAIRFIELD – TenCate Advanced Composites USA, Inc., a manufacturer of composites for space, aerospace and industrial applications, is moving its Benicia operations currently in three separate buildings to a single 65,000 square foot former warehouse in Fairfield.

  • Napa-Solano industrial: Year-end activity bodes well for the rest of the year

    March 14th, 2011

    Industrial markets in Napa and Solano counties overall continued to be sluggish throughout 2010 because of poor economic conditions. While several significant lease transactions were completed during the year, a number of large new vacancies nullified any real traction.

  • Benicia exploring ways to attract technology companies

    August 16th, 2010

    BENICIA — As a means of attracting more jobs to the city, Benicia is considering adjusting zoning and land-use laws that would permit more tech and development companies to occupy about one third of the city’s land area, including all of its industrial park.

  • Hospitality & Tourism: Benicia exploring tourism district; new Silverado management

    July 5th, 2010

    The city of Benicia is in the early stages of exploring the formation of a business improvement district that could potentially fund tourism promotions. … A Berkeley-based web venture recently launched a new website for vacation rentals in the Bay Area as a means to provide a new resource “for renters and owners alike.” … Napa’s Silverado Resort last week changed owners and management companies.

  • Wine closure companies merge certain capsule operations

    April 9th, 2010

    UKIAH and BENICIA — Rivercap SA of Spain and Sparflex SA of France, which are major producers of beverage packaging, have agreed to merge their capsule operations for the wine and spirits industries, which includes the Rivercap distributorship in Benicia and the Sparflex capsule plant in Ukiah.

  • Napa-Solano county industrial: Some new demand in 2010 as tenants see excellent terms

    March 15th, 2010

    The industrial markets of Napa and Solano counties are seeing a modest amount of demand as we head into 2010.

  • High-wage life sciences seen as critical to region’s future

    August 17th, 2009

    SOLANO – Solano’s life science cluster is healthy and thriving, offering high-wage jobs for the county, according to a recent a report issued by the Solano Economic Development Corp.

  • Cork Supply USA builds cooperage

    March 9th, 2009

    BENICIA — Cork Supply Group, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of wine bottle closures, plans to start rolling out its own barrels this spring from a new cooperage nearing completion at the company’s headquarters.

  • Construction: Building industry monitoring Obama’s order on union labor

    February 16th, 2009

    Construction trade organizations are watching closely how President Obama’s Feb. 6 executive order on project labor agreements, or PLAs, on federally funded construction projects larger than $25 million will be implemented with the pending economic-stimulus package. The order rescinded a Bush administration ban on such arrangements.

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