Tyco Electronics said on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy ADC Telecommunications, a broadband equipment maker, for about $1.25 billion in cash, the latest in a spate of deals over ... Read More
Tech Aerospace Group Inc., a Kansas City airplane parts maker, plans to build a new $17.5 million 75,000-square-foot plant and add 100 jobs in Washington, Mo. The company, which had also ... Read More
A new process for converting waste into synthetic diesel fuel is being given serious consideration by Global Fuels LLC of Dexter, which currently produces biodiesel from chicken fat. The new process ... Read More
In a deal that would no doubt bring a smile to the faces of some investment bankers, Sanofi-Aventis is reportedly preparing for an American acquisition that could be worth $20 billion. ... Read More
President Obama will use his visit to Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corp. in Kansas City on Thursday to highlight how the federal government is using stimulus grants to encourage more private ... Read More
Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday afternoon signed the Missouri Manufacturing Jobs Act in the Kansas City area, which has a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant that could be a key beneficiary ... Read More
BASF and Monsanto Co. said Wednesday that they are expanding their joint efforts to develop higher-yielding and stress-tolerant crops to include wheat and may add more than $1 billion to those ... Read More
The 2010 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card, prepared by Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research, noted certain states – those with low tax rates, diversity of industry and ... Read More
Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s have both reaffirmed Missouri’s AAA credit rating, making Missouri once again the only state in the Midwest to earn a triple-A rating from all ... Read More
St. Louis biotechnology company Mediomics said Tuesday it received an additional $460,000 in federal funding thanks to the renewal of a second-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. ... Read More