Ford Motor Co. will add 900 new jobs at its Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo to meet strong demand for the newly launched 2015 Ford F-150 pickup.
The hiring in Kansas City is the lion’s share of an overall announcement that Ford will create 1,550 new jobs nationwide to support F-150 production. About 500 jobs will be added at Ford’s Dearborn Stamping and Dearborn Diversified plants in Michigan, and 150 jobs will be at its Sterling Axle facility in Michigan.
The U.S. Defense Department has awarded Boeing Co. a $3.48 billion, seven-year contract to develop, test, engineer and manufacture missile defense systems, the Chicago Tribune reports. Boeing beat out a team ... Read More
Eighty four F-15 fighter jets, which are built at Boeing’s facility in Hazelwood, are being sold to Saudi Arabia at a cost of $30 billion, according to the Obama administration. The ... Read More
University of Missouri researchers have developed a pain-free way to fill tooth cavities, technology that could be on the market in two years. The so-called “plasma brush” uses chemical reactions to ... Read More
A new $7 million-plus renewable energy center at Crowder College in southwest Missouri is nearing completion. more ... Read More
Mylan Inc. said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration approved the drugmaker’s generic version of the high blood pressure treatment Teveten. more ... Read More
Missouri gained 10,900 manufacturing jobs between December 2010 and last month, an accomplishment Gov. Jay Nixon lauded Thursday. The figures came this week from the U.S. Department of Labor ’s Bureau ... Read More
Will buy eMeter, a provider of meter data management. more ... Read More
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has joined forces with the nation’s three other largest nonprofit plant science research institutions to form the Association of Independent Plant Research Institutes. The other ... Read More
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. today announced that it has acquired the research and diagnostic laboratory (RADIL) business of the College of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Missouri for $43 million in ... Read More
On Monday the Moberly Area Economic Development Corporation, Chariton County and the city of Salisbury announced that JC Solutions LLC, a producer of agricultural products, will locate its manufacturing and packaging ... Read More