Boat builder docks in Onslow.

• Position: EASTERN REGION

Armstrong Marine will invest more than $8.4 million and create 200 jobs in an aluminum-boat factory near Swansboro. The company makes purpose-built boats for law-enforcement agen-des and the military as well as ferries, tour boats, dive boats and research vessels. Owner and President Josh Armstrong and brother Cory, who manages production, started the company more than two decades ago in British Columbia, Canada, where they grew up, and later moved it to Port Angeles, Wash. The plant there couldn't meet demand, and a second one in Onslow County...