Manufacturing

Ameren forms separate transmission business

Ameren Corp. said Monday it created a new subsidiary dedicated to electric transmission infrastructure investment and identified $3 billion in potential projects. The new company, Ameren Transmission Co. (ATX), will build ... Read More

GE orders 100 jets from Boeing, Airbus

General Electric’s aircraft leasing unit announced at the Farnborough airshow on July 19 that it has placed an order for 100 planes from Boeing and Airbus. GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) ... Read More

Nixon signs the Missouri Manufacturing Jobs Act, Ford Incentives in Kansas City

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

Tech Aerospace to add 100 jobs in Washington, Mo

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

MU noted for energy efficiency

The University of Missouri has been recognized by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency for using a variety of alternative energy sources to power its campus. MU was one of three universities ... Read More

Boeing gets $1.5B air force contract

Boeing Co. has received a $1.53 billion U.S. Air Force contract for eight C-17 transport planes, the Pentagon said on Tuesday in a daily list of contract awards. It said $734 ... Read More

Ford taps Toshiba to make motors for hybrid

Toshiba said on June 23 it will build electric motors for a new Ford hybrid vehicles at its plant in the United States. The company, already building motors for bullet trains, ... Read More

Caterpillar’s global sales jump

Caterpillar Inc. said Friday that its machine sales worldwide jumped 11 percent in May compared with a year ago as a rebound in North American and Asian business markets helped offset ... Read More

Pioneer Power to enter wind turbine market

Most of the assets of AAER Inc., a Quebec-based company that once aspired to establish itself as a wind turbine manufacturer but ended up in bankruptcy court, are being sold to ... Read More

Caterpillar to buy Electro-Motive Diesel

Caterpillar Inc. agreed to buy a U.S. maker of railroad locomotives on Tuesday for $820 million in cash, expanding its rail business from service into new engine manufacturing. The world’s largest ... Read More