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  • multipack canisters printed film in Texwrap manufacturing

    Texwrap Packaging Systems Investing $2.25 Million to expand its plant in Missouri

    This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on March 17, 2023.  Texwrap Packaging Systems, which designs and manufactures shrink wrapping and bundling machinery, said this week it…

  • Terramac-RT14R sitting on a dirt hill.

    Terramac opens a facility in St. Louis to add manufacturing capacity

    This article originally ran in the Sun Times News on March 10, 2023.  Terramac, a Sugar Grove, Illinois-based maker of rubber-tracked crawler carriers, has expanded its production capacity with the…

  • Chain of Rocks Bridge over Mississippi River

    Illinois and Missouri demonstrate unprecedented collaboration on highways

    This article originally ran in St. Louis Post Dispatch on March 6, 2023.  Construction on the new I-270 Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River marks another significant milestone…

  • Gateway South developer reaches milestone on $200M phase of the $1.2B Chouteau’s Landing project

    This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on March 2, 2023.  The developer behind a massive $1.2 billion project on the downtown riverfront and the city of…

  • St. Louis Ranked #1 Among Top Metro Regions along the Mississippi River.

    This article originally ran in Site Selection Magazine on Feb. 23, 2023.  This isn’t just an investment in our facilities, it’s an investment in our hometown community.” Those were the…

  • Two employees of a manufacturing company.

    Greater St. Louis Inc. Tells Parents that Today’s Manufacturing Jobs are ‘Technology’

    This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on Feb. 23, 2023.  Parents need to be educated that the manufacturing jobs that their children can get now are…

  • Passengers inside of MidAmerica St. Louis Airport terminal

    MidAmerica Airport hits new passenger record in 2022

    This article originally ran on St. Louis Public Radio on Feb. 14, 2023.  For the past two years, MidAmerica St. Louis Airport has posted record passenger levels, and it may…

  • Waterway near St. Louis Gateway Arch

    The Role of Inland Waterways in Building Supply Chain Infrastructure

    This article originally ran in The Supply Chain Brain on Feb. 6, 2023.  By Mary Lamie, Executive Director of St. Louis Regional Freightway. The supply chain disruptions that have rocked…

  • Refresco employee on the product inspection line.

    Refresco plans for $22M expansion in Warren County production plant

    This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on Feb. 21, 2023.  Refresco, a Netherlands-based beverage bottler, is bolstering its presence locally with plans to invest $22 million…

  • Boeing added 900 jobs to the region last year

    This article originally ran in The St. Louis Post Dispatch on Feb. 17, 2023.   Boeing added hundreds to its St. Louis-area workforce last year, with an eye toward the next…

  • Ethan Koenig, 20, welds a steel T-joint at the Center for Workforce Innovation at St. Louis Community College.

    Local Manufacturers look to schools as a way to recruit new workers

    This article originally ran in The St. Louis Post Dispatch on Feb. 13, 2023.  Facing a worker shortage, companies in the St. Louis region are working in new ways with…

  • Emerson Electric St. Louis headquarters building located in Ferguson.

    Emerson Electric decides to keep Headquarters in St. Louis

    This article originally ran on St. Louis Business Journal on Feb. 8, 2023.  Ferguson-based Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) will keep its headquarters in St. Louis, the company said Wednesday. Emerson’s…