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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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This means that new hot spots of tech innovation are springing up in places like Kansas City, the site of Google’s new high speed Google Fiber network, and Pittsburgh, a new hotbed for innovative tech start-ups. Successful partnerships between academia and industries are regularly developing new products and technologies.

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Katoen Natie USA Announces $150 Million Baton Rouge Area Facility

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Bobby Jindal and Frank Vingerhoets, Katoen Natie’s president of petrochemicals in North America, have announced that Katoen Natie USA will invest $150 million to build a plastics storage, custom packaging and distribution facility for producers of petrochemical products in Baton Rouge. The logistics platform will create 210 new direct jobs.

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. An estimated 38.4 population.

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Ford Offers Gas When Diesel Is Too Much | ENR: Engineering News.

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Product Snapshot. It eventually will move production to Avon Lake, Ohio, after it winds down its E-Series commercial vans to make way for Transit production in Claycomo, Mo., near Kansas City. Project Delivery. Ethics & Corruption. Economic Stimulus. -->. Associations. Washington Observer. Interviews.

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COMMUNITY PROFILE: Opportunity Knocks in Southwest Louisiana

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Bordered by the Gulf of Mexico to the south and Texas to the west, the sky is literally the limit for an area where an estimated $48 billion in private investments already have been announced, including several mega-projects in the natural gas industry. Opportunity is a word used a lot when discussions about Southwest Louisiana are started.

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Logistics: No Drivers Needed

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It is also helpful in terms of the current truck driver shortage that the American Tucking Association estimates at more than 38,000. The addition of the Indiana location to its distribution networks now enables MaxLite to offer two-day shipping of its LED products to customers nationwide. In fact, Indiana ranks No.1

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2023

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Stephen Brooke Digital Delivery Manager, Burns & McDonnell Kansas City, MO Stephen Brooke is a Digital Delivery Manager at Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City, MO. His innovative design and construction approaches have led to improved production, efficiency, and safety. Robert is also incredibly data-centric.