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The original article comes from TheTelegraph on October 3, 2024 The port was originally known as the Tri-City Regional Port District before a major expansion in 2000 when it took over the closing U.S. Army Charles Melvin Price Support Center. Renamed River’s Edge, it was later called America’s Central Port and provides loading/offloading facilities for barge, rail and truck traffic, industrial development, […]

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The original article comes from The Illinois Business Journal on October 3, 2024 October is National Manufacturing Month, a time to celebrate modern manufacturing and to inspire interest in manufacturing careers. Some manufacturing companies open their doors to the public and join educational institutions and organizations this month in hosting events. Individuals interested in exploring career opportunities in the manufacturing sector […]

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The original article comes from the The Argus on September, 28, 2024 Learn how St. Louis successfully retained and expanded Procter & Gamble’s home products facility at North St. Louis, resulting in the creation of new jobs and a $180 million investment.  

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The original article comes from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on September, 25, 2024 Lufthansa Airlines is continuing its nonstop flights from St. Louis to Frankfurt, Germany, at least through the end of 2025. St. Louis Lambert International Airport’s director, Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, said the two years of financial incentives offered by St. Louis area interests to lure the German-based airline expired […]

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The original article comes from The Business Journal on September 6, 2024 St. Louis startup Intramotev, which produces self-propelled, electric-powered railcars, has signed a switching agreement with Eagle Drayage, a freight carrier also based in St. Louis.

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The St. Louis Regional Freightway has added three additional properties to its growing pipeline of rail-accessible industrial real estate sites: Admiral Parkway, Forest Boulevard, and Granite City Buildings and Land. They bring the total number of rail-served sites in the pipeline to 20, spread across 16 locations. These sites all feature heavy industrial user zoning ready for developers to take […]

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The St. Louis Regional Freightway is launching a new task force in collaboration with the region’s five busiest airports, leading employers in the aerospace manufacturing and service sector and other leaders in education and workforce training. The launch is in response to more than $5 billion in planned investments that are creating urgent demand for workers to fill an estimated […]

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The original article comes from The Business Journal on August 25, 2024 Intramotev, a St. Louis-based company developing what it describes as a self-propelled, battery-powered railcar, has raised $14 million from investors as it plans to grow its staff in preparation for making several new deployments of its technology globally.

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The original article comes from Cook County Chronical on August 15, 2024 Nine local initiatives and activities have been given grants to support planning efforts and develop transportation improvements. Administered by IDOT using $7.5 million in federal funds, with matching funds of $1.25 million from the state and $741,000 from local governments, the grants are designed to advance the objectives […]

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The original article comes from The Business Journal on August 25, 2024 The St. Louis region added 40,000 people to its workforce in the past year, well ahead of the national average. But not all of those are new jobs.

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The original article comes from St. Louis Post Dispatch on June 7, 2024 A company here is set to build a new manufacturing facility thanks to as much as $400 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce to boost semiconductor research and manufacturing. The White House on Wednesday announced that GlobalWafers will receive major financial support for its projects in […]

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The original article comes from EdGlenTodayNews on June 7, 2024 One of the world’s leading suppliers of copper and copper alloy solutions, Wieland is embarking on a $500M modernization and expansion of its facility in East Alton, Illinois. Construction has mobilized on the Casting Unit 6 (CU6) project, representing the first stage in this capital investment plan to re-equip, modernize, and expand […]

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This article originally ran in St. Louis Business Journal on July 9, 2024. Construction crews began work Monday night on an ambitious $2.8 billion project that will expand Interstate 70 to three lanes across Missouri. Crews are first tackling a stretch from Route J at Millersburg to Route M at Hatton, 7 miles of a 20-mile section that will ultimately […]

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The original article comes from The Business Journal on June, 25, 2024 The Boeing Co.’s defense productions in the St. Louis area represent a “robust portfolio,” with significant demand worldwide for the F-15 fighter jet, T-7A pilot trainer jet and munitions, a high-ranking company executive said Tuesday. The top priority with the T-7A is to deliver the new pilot trainer to the U.S. Air Force, but there […]

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The original article comes from The Business Journal on June, 25, 2024 Construction on the expansion will get underway soon after the Fourth of July holiday, said membrane division General Manager Erin Sorensen. The new addition is expected to come on line by the end of 2025, Sorensen said. The general contractor is St. Louis-based PARIC. The new production at […]

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The original article comes from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June, 25, 2024 Two proposed projects moved forward Tuesday after a St. Louis development board signed off on tax incentives. The board of the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority, which handles tax incentives for the city of St. Louis, approved bonds for sales tax exemptions on construction materials for a […]

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This blog comes from the Illinois Department of Transportation on June 25, 2024 A record-breaking $41.42 billion over six years provided by the latest multi-year program will build and repair infrastructure throughout Illinois across all modes of transportation touching every Illinois county. The new program continues the momentum of the governor’s historic, bipartisan Rebuild Illinois capital program and aims to modernize the […]

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This blog comes from the Illinois Department of Transportation on June 25, 2024 A record-breaking $41.42 billion over six years provided by the latest multi-year program will build and repair infrastructure throughout Illinois across all modes of transportation touching every Illinois county. The new program continues the momentum of the governor’s historic, bipartisan Rebuild Illinois capital program and aims to modernize the […]

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This article originally ran in St. Louis Business Journal on May 28, 2024. An industrial gas supplier is planning a $70 million expansion in St. Louis, a move it says will add more than 30 jobs. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. will invest more than $70 million to expand its manufacturing and logistics center in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Growing product […]

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This article originally ran in St. Louis Business Journal on May 28, 2024. An industrial gas supplier is planning a $70 million expansion in St. Louis, a move it says will add more than 30 jobs. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. will invest more than $70 million to expand its manufacturing and logistics center in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Growing product […]

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