A Smithfield Foods subsidiary on Monday announced a $100 million joint venture to turn hog manure into energy at its farms in northern Missouri. Murphy-Brown of Missouri, formerly called Premium Standards ... Read More
Kansas City Power & Light Co. announced that it intends to expand two of its energy-efficiency programs, one of which doubles its wind-generating capacity to serve 124,000 homes. Under the other ... Read More
Forest Laboratories Inc. agreed to buy specialty pharmaceutical company Aptalis Holdings Inc. for $2.9 billion in cash. Private-equity firm TPG purchased Aptalis, at the time called Axcan Pharma Inc., in 2008 ... Read More
The City of Fountains ranks among the top 10 most promising tech hubs of 2014, according to the Web magazine Techie.com. Kansas City earned the recognition not only for a burgeoning ... Read More
Union Pacific Railroad will strengthen Missouri’s transportation infrastructure by investing $21 million to construct a more-than-nine-mile second main line track in the Bell City area, in southeast Missouri. The project, funded ... Read More
Holman Boiler Works, Inc., the nation’s largest full-service boiler solutions provider, has signed a commercial property lease to expand operations to 14,000-square-foot at its current Fenton, Mo. facility in Greater St. ... Read More
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology are conducting work that could shape the next generation of nuclear reactors. The state’s first nuclear reactor was constructed more than 50 ... Read More
The work will be performed at Boeing’s Hazelwood facility and is expected to be complete by March 31, 2015, Air Force officials announced. The contract involves foreign military sales for Israel. ... Read More
Ford Motor Co.’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo will begin operating around the clock as the company prepares to hire 900 more workers to fill another F-150 production shift, The ... Read More
The project is expected to create 5,000 construction jobs when work begins in 2016 and 500 operational jobs after it starts operation in 2018. Clean Line Energy Partners LLC, the Houston-based ... Read More