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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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Arizona offers one of the lowest costs of doing business in the United States, primarily because of low taxes and small state government. Boasting a population of nearly 500,000, Mesa is the 36th largest city in the United States and second largest in the Phoenix-Mesa metro area. percent, here the number is only 8.4

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies recently announced a $208-million investment in new manufacturing at its four production sites in Louisiana. Honeywell is expanding product offerings into catalysts, refrigerants and adsorbents while improving the competitiveness of sites in Caddo, East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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1 home builder in building permits and construction value, scaring off every large-volume, multistate production operation that dared enter Ivory’s Wasatch Mountain lair. Collaboration within and across operational groups is critical, especially when adding new product to the mix. Photo: Erik Ostling / dbphotoagency.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Mississippi Looks To Energy Sector To Fuel Statewide Growth

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Through Bryant’s leadership, the state’s economic development strategy has yielded significant returns in both new global business investment and existing industry expansions. Energy production is one of the largest economic engines in Mississippi, providing 28,000 jobs. Since our entry into the U.S. I’d like to thank Gov.

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Supply Chain Reaction

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The process to revise NAFTA formally was activated by the United States in June after President Trump decided not to withdraw from the trade pact, which he had threatened to do soon after he took office in January. The company has had great success producing a high-quality American-made products for sale in a global market.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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The expansion includes retrofitting their main fab to logic chips to supply mobile and tablet production. Annual production at the facility has tripled since 2008. So the last remaining auto assembly plant within the city limits of Detroit is now perhaps the most modern and successful vehicle production facility in the world.

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Industry Focus: Aerospace Sector Is Flying High Again

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A fter several years of job losses, aerospace and defense sector employment is expected to grow in 2016 by more than 39,000 jobs in the U.S., Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. percent, of which about 185,000 jobs were lost in the defense subsector. Aerospace and defense sector companies paid $7.7