ABB Enters U.S. Market for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
- January 01, 2011
Invests $10 million for stake in ECOtality to supply technology for charging stations ... Read More
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The one of a kind program will initially only be available in Kansas City and Chicago.
Through a partnership with ITT Technical Institute and leading food and beverage companies,the Food Processing Education Consortium (FPEC) announced the launch of the Food Industry Technicians Development Program (FIT), a national certification program for service technicians in the packaging, processing, and food and beverage manufacturing industries.
“There is a tremendous need to attract new technicians to our industry to fill a major void. Demand is outstripping the supply, but graduates earning FIT certification will be armed with a two-year Associate’s Degree along with practical and experiential knowledge in the industry,” says Scott Scriven, chairman of the Foundation of the Food Processing Suppliers Association (FFPSA) and FPEC.
The program will initially only be available in Kansas City, Mo. and Chicago, and will include online and classroom instruction at ITT.
Express Scripts’ $70M expansion gets $10M in incentives
- December 20, 2010
Express Scripts Inc. on Friday provided more details of its planned $70 million expansion at its headquarters in north St. Louis County with the addition of a 227,000-square-foot office building at ... Read More
Honeywell FM&T receives prestigious Malcolm Baldrige award
- December 17, 2010
Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies has won the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award — a prestigious honor given to five companies this year, with Honeywell the only ... Read More
Downtown St. Louis development tops $525M
- December 17, 2010
With the financing closing for the $21 million rehab of the Leather Trades Lofts, current downtown development totals more than half a billion dollars going into the new year. Dominium Development ... Read More
DED incentives help Danish manufacturing company to create 50 new jobs in Moberly
- December 16, 2010
The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) announced today that Vest-Fiber, a supplier of fiberglass products and services primarily to the wind turbine industry headquartered in Denmark, has chosen Moberly to ... Read More
Smith Electric Vehicles sells trucks to U.S. Marine Corps
- December 14, 2010
Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corp. has sold two of its all-electric trucks to the U.S. Marine Corps, its first sale to the military. The Kansas City-based company said Monday that the ... Read More
DED incentives help Danish manufacturing company to create 50 new jobs in Moberly
- December 13, 2010
The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) announced today that Vest-Fiber, a supplier of fiberglass products and services primarily to the wind turbine industry headquartered in Denmark, has chosen Moberly to ... Read More
Health cooperative firm to create 135 new jobs in Cape Girardeau
- December 08, 2010
A southeastern Missouri health cooperative is getting about $2 million in state incentives to expand. The Hometown Innovation Team plans to renovate three buildings in in downtown Cape Girardeau for its ... Read More
AGL Resources to Buy Nicor for $2.4 Billion
- December 07, 2010
The merger will form a natural gas company with about 5.5 million customers across seven states. ... Read More
3M to Acquire Winterthur Technologies AG
- December 06, 2010
3M to Acquire Winterthur Technologies AG Winterthur is a supplier of precision grinding technology serving the industrial, automotive, aircraft, and cutting tools markets. ... Read More