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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” logistics and transportation industry totaled $1.33 There is no inventory tax, which is particularly advantageous to distribution companies.

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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Green Building Law Update

Includes wood, wood waste, wood liquors, peat, railroad ties, wood sludge, spent sulfite liquors, agricultural waste, straw, tires, fish oils, tall oil, sludge waste, waste alcohol, municipal solid waste, landfill gases, other waste, and ethanol blended into motor gasoline. The atmosphere also contains clouds and aerosols.

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Tennessee Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Economic Development Fund: The new FastTrack Economic Development Fund expands Tennessee’s current FastTrack infrastructure and job training program by providing additional grant support for companies expanding or locating in Tennessee with reimbursable grants made to local industrial development boards. TAX INCENTIVES.

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15 Tennessee Communities To Receive Site Development Grants

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We want to help them up their game and increase their close rate by making our rural county site inventory among the most attractive and project ready in the world.”. Centerville Shipps Bend Industrial Site, $310,650: Construction of access road and new wastewater line to the property. acres of the 48.62 acre Select TN site.

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Virginia Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Technology Zones: Virginia cities, counties and towns have the ability to establish, by ordinance, one or more technology zones to attract growth in targeted industries. Property Tax Exemptions: Virginia does not tax intangible property, manufacturers’ inventory, and manufacturers’ furniture, fixtures and corporate aircraft.

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Repower off-highway diesel equipment with EPA-compliant replacement engines

CK Power

In this way, the exemption lowers the burden of compliance for the industry without impeding the EPA’s primary goal of reducing harmful pollutants. North America’s leading railroad company once called us on a Friday to replace an engine for a critical piece of maintenance equipment. Upgrades (e.g.,

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STATE FOCUS: Kansas Focuses On The All-Around

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Kansas also has no personal property tax, no inventory tax and no franchise tax. Other workforce development initiatives include a credentialing initiative to help workers obtain industry recognized certifications and an engineering initiative which is increasing the number of engineering students in Kansas universities.

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