Industry Insight

After decades of planning and construction, U.S. Highway 71 from Kansas City to Pineville, Mo., officially became Interstate 49 at noon Wednesday.   Read More...

Interstate 49 between Kansas City and Pineville will become official today.   Read More...

Garmin International Inc., the maker of GPS products, is expanding its engineering internship program by opening a new software engineering facility at Missouri University of Science and Technology.   Read More...

Tom Brutnell and Todd Mockler, researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, have launched an agricultural biotech start-up focused on improving intrinsic crop yield.   Read More...

Over the past year, the amount of solar power generated in Columbia has steadily increased, and private industry has been helping to drive the trend.   Read More...

Lee Biosolutions Inc. has expanded its line of biomarkers to include products used to track testicular cancer.   Read More...

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $50 million federal grant aimed at helping researches turn scientific discoveries into ways to improve human health.   Read More...

Owned by MU and operated by the Missouri Innovation Center, the MU Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place opened in January 2009.   Read More...

LMI Aerospace Inc. plans to spend $4.3 million over the next five years to expand its corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities in St. Charles and add 100 jobs to the existing 300 there.   Read More...

A leading provider of components, assemblies and engineering services to the aerospace, defense and technology industries plans to expand its corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities in St. Charles, Gov. Jay Nixon announced today.   Read More...

Managed hosting and colocation company XIOLINK says it’s downtown data center, at 1111 Olive St., uses 55 percent less power to cool its facility than the average enterprise data center.   Read More...

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AeroValve, DealieDo join Helix Center Biotech Incubator

Two startups are joining the Helix Center Biotech Incubator, St. Louis County’s newest $7.5 million early-stage business incubator that opened in June.

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3M agreed to acquire advanced ceramics maker Ceradyne in a deal that values the company at $847 million, a move that will complement 3M's businesses in transportation, energy markets and defense.

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Honeywell agreed to buy a 70% stake in Thomas Russell, a technology and equipment provider for natural gas processing and treating, for $525 million as the company looks to broaden its offerings in the shale and natural gas markets.   Read More...

Hazelwood-based Mallinckrodt, the pharmaceuticals business of Covidien, announced a definitive agreement to acquire CNS Therapeutics Inc. for $100 million.   Read More...

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The midsize Canyon joins production plans at Wentzville, where GM is investing $380 million to build that pickup and an all-new Colorado. GMC officials would not say when the Canyon will be available to customers.   Read More...

BASF, the world's largest chemical company, is buying Iowa seed treatment company Becker Underwood from Norwest Equity Partners for $1.02 billion. German-based BASF is making the purchase to boost its farming pesticides division, Reuters reports. In spring 2011, analysts had speculated that BASF eyed Monsanto as a takeover target, but sources also told Reuters BASF had no current plans to buy the St. Louis-based seed tech company.   Read More...