Manufacturing
Posted April 12, 2024 KC SmartPort hosted its annual industry briefing Wednesday, bringing together over 650 industrial leaders and highlighting the Kansas City region as a center for global investment. Industrial leaders from the surrounding Kansas City region and beyond…
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Posted April 1, 2024 Creighton University released its Mid-America Business Conditions Index for March and shows the region has not broken the growth threshold and the manufacturing sector is losing more workers. The Business Conditions Index, which uses the same…
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Posted March 21, 2024 Warroad, Minnesota-based Marvin, a window and door manufacturer, has selected Kansas City, Kansas for the home of its new $76 million factory. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday that Marvin will invest $76.5 million to build…
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Owners of the Kansas City-based manufacturer Meyer Laboratory, Inc. have sold their company to a private equity firm in New York. New York-based TruArc Partners announced it had acquired Meyer Lab from its owners Russell Meyer and William “Rusty” Meyer,…
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Updated 12:53 p.m., March 4, 2024 A Kansas Department of Commerce official believes the state is poised to take on more electric vehicle manufacturing investments a year after a bill passed to establish the Transformation of Passenger and Freight Vehicle…
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Creighton University released its Mid-America Business Conditions Index which shows the region dropped back below growth neutral and a decrease in job openings and layoffs over the past 12 months for all states in the region. The Business Conditions Index,…
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Posted February 27, 2024 Sarasota, Fl.-based Harmar Mobility LLC announced it has consolidated both of its Missouri manufacturing facilities to a new location in Raymore. Harmer is an accessibility and mobility equipment supplier that specializes in stairlifts, platform lifts, vehicle…
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Posted February 20, 2024 Keystone Automotive Industries will expand its Kansas City operations at a new facility in Hunt Midwest‘s Heartland Logistics Park in Shawnee. Keystone will lease 530,455-square-feet of Heartland Logistics Park Building III, according to a release. Construction…
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Posted February 5, 2024 North Carolina-based Honeywell is investing $84 million to expand its aerospace manufacturing facility in Olathe, elevating the facility to one of the company’s most technologically advanced and creating 156 new jobs. “Expanding this facility will enable…
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Posted February 5, 2024 Creighton University released its Mid-America Manufacturing Index which shows job losses in the sector across all states in the ten-state region, excluding South Dakota, in January. The Business Conditions Index (BCI), which uses the national Institute…
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