Manufacturing

U.S. Department of Commerce, Missouri Boost Training for Missouri’s Growing Workforce

Construction is ready to begin on the Ranken-Ashland Skilled Trade Training Facility, a construction trade and medical services workforce development training center, in Ashland, Missouri. The completed project is expected to ... Read More

U.S. Navy Blue Angels Fly Missouri-Made Fighter Jets For 35 Years

Missouri’s workforce makes many impressive products across several industries – from the best-selling trucks and vans in the U.S. to innovative products that are reshaping animal health. But one that soars ... Read More

Missouri-Made Product Catches Big Fish on TV’s “Shark Tank”

StepNpull, a Springfield, Missouri-based innovator and manufacturer, struck a “wonderful” deal on network television. Investor Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, agreed to inject $300,000 into the business on a recent episode ... Read More

Anheuser-Busch Investing $100 Million In Innovative Renewable Company in Missouri

Global brewing company Anheuser-Busch recently announced that it will invest $100 million into a new innovative grain repurposing facility on its St. Louis brewery campus. EverGrain, an Anheuser-Busch backed company that ... Read More

Expansion Solutions Magazine: Shovel-Ready Sites Provide Plenty of Development Opportunities in 2021

Economists at the Federal Reserve expect the U.S. economy to grow in 2021 by 4 percent and unemployment to decline to 5.5 percent. Investment banker Morgan Stanley predicts real GDP growth ... Read More

Missouri Agtech Company Innovating New Ways to Produce Rubber from Sunflowers

A Missouri agtech company is finding new ways to produce rubber – from sunflowers. Edison Agrosciences, based in St. Louis, Missouri, recently received a $1 million grant to research the crop’s ... Read More

John Deere Invests in Springfield, Missouri

John Deere Reman, the remanufacturing division of Deere & Company, has announced plans to invest and grow in Springfield, Missouri. The new investment will add drivetrain and hydraulic remanufacturing operations to ... Read More

Boeing Delivers Missouri-Made F-15EX Fighter Jet to US Air Force

A new Missouri-made jet was recently delivered to the United States Air Force. Boeing, a global aerospace and defense company, was awarded a $1.2 billion contract for Missouri-made F-15EX fighter jets ... Read More

Food Solutions Company Announces Major Investment in St. Joseph, Missouri

Cereal Ingredients Inc., a food solutions company, has announced plans to invest with a new 80,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in St. Joseph, Missouri. The project represents $24 million in ... Read More

Missouri Company Analyzes Data… From Mars

We recently covered how NASAs Perseverance rover, which landed safely on the surface of Mars in February, was powered by batteries made in Joplin, Missouri. But that isn’t Missouri’s only connection ... Read More