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Susan Boyd (left) and Tonya Stratton plan to start selling their noise-reduction barriers in January.
Turning Down the Noise: Kernersville company will start marketing a modular sound-absorption product
One day in the summer of 2008, Susan Boyd and Daniel C. Smith were watching a brick mason in Raleigh install a sound-barrier one brick at a time. At the time, Boyd had co-founded and Smith was a structural engineer for ProConcepts Inc., a company that made commercial modular buildings. While watching the bricklayers, Smith got the idea that a product they were using on modular buildings would simplify the brick-laying process.
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