Business Notebook

The Internal Revenue Service will hold a public auction next week of the contents of a restaurant, including alcohol products and a Ford van, the IRS said Friday.

Items for auction, because of a failure to pay federal taxes, include stoves, grills, salad preparation stations, a Hosizaki ice machine, True coolers, a warmer and draft coolers.

The auction is scheduled for July 15 at the Old Armory Steakhouse, 514 Rutledge St. in Camden. It begins at 11 a.m. Items can be previewed the day before between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Pageland gets equipment plant

Titan Stainless, a stainless equipment manufacturer serving primarily the food service and health care industries, is building a $2.6 million plant in Pageland that will create 50 jobs in that Chesterfield County community.

The jobs will come during a five-year period, according to a news release this week.

The 50,000-square-foot plant will be at the Lynches River Industrial Park and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year, with hiring to begin in December.

Those interested in jobs with the Waxhaw, N.C.-based company, may go to the SC Works or titan-stainless.com websites.

European officials on Friday took a step toward creating a web of natural gas pipelines across the region’s southeast to reduce the threat of Russia choking off supplies.

Fifteen nations, more than half of them from the former Soviet bloc, endorsed a plan to improve energy infrastructure and ultimately ensure each of them maintains three separate sources of supply. Ministers with Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s vice president in charge of energy union, chose seven gas link projects that should be sped up and that may be eligible for financial support.

IN BRIEF

▪  The head of the U.S. government’s personnel office resigns abruptly, bowing to bipartisan calls for her to step down following a massive government data breach on her watch.

▪  U.S. stocks logged their best day in two months Friday as Greece appeared to move closer to securing a bailout deal that will enable it to avoid bankruptcy and keep the country in the eurozone.

From Staff and Wire Reports