Private-equity investor Madison Dearborn Partners LLC has agreed to purchase Bway Holding Co., an Atlanta-based supplier of metal and plastic containers, for $915 million in cash and debt and plans to ... Read More
According to electronic market research firm iSuppli, LEDs are facing a global supply shortage in 2010, and the year may end with a sharp under-supply of the in-demand devices unless production ... Read More
Kansas City Power & Light is teaming up with the city of St. Joseph to create a power plant that converts methane leaking from the city’s landfill into energy. The utility ... Read More
Intersil Corp. agreed to acquire Techwell Inc. for about $418 million, as the semiconductor company looks to boost its industrial business, which will become its largest market. The company will pay ... Read More
Because of limitations in recycling technology, a common type of plastic used in water bottles and food containers weakens so much when it’s recycled that it can’t be used again for ... Read More
German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA will buy U.S. biotech equipment maker Millipore Corp. in a deal valued at $7.2 billion including debt, according to media reports Sunday. Speculation about an acquisition ... Read More
In former swamplands teeming with otters and wild hogs, one of the nation’s biggest utilities is running an experiment in the future of renewable power. Harvesting the SunAcross 500 acres north ... Read More
Fortune magazine has name Saint Louis University one of its “5 schools for entrepreneurs.” SLU was one of five schools the magazine chose that stand out among the 2,264 schools in ... Read More
Ford Motor Co. announced on Feb. 26 that it is investing $155 million and adding 60 jobs at its Cleveland operations to build a new fuel-efficient V-6 engine for the 2011 ... Read More
Five Missouri facilities are among Thompson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals, based on a national benchmarks study for 2009: Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital, Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville, Boone Hospital Center ... Read More