Yearly Archives: 2012

Hallmark Cards shutters plant, moves work to Kansas City

Hallmark Cards Inc. plans to close a subsidiary in Indiana and move work on the greeting card brand to Kansas City, The Kansas City Star reports. Hallmark acquired Sunrise Greetings in ... Read More

Columbia’s solar power output increases

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. Through 2011, there were 28 megawatt ... Read More

Zoltek forms partnership to develop lightweight auto parts

Zoltek Cos. is working with Magna Exteriors and Interiors, an operating unit of Magna International Inc., to develop low-cost carbon fiber sheet molding compounds for the automotive industry. Magna, based in ... Read More

Garmin to open facility at S&T Technology Development Center

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. Kansas City-based Garmin ... Read More

Danforth Center researchers launch ag biotech start-up

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. Benson Hill Biosystems, led by CEO ... Read More

MoDOT to Unveil New I-49 in Missouri Today

Interstate 49 between Kansas City and Pineville will become official today. The Missouri Department of Transportation will hold a public celebration and sign unveiling at 12 p.m. today (Wednesday) at Joplin ... Read More

New Interstate 49 opens between Kansas City and Joplin

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

Wall Street Jobs Move to Smaller Cities

The U.S. securities industry is booming—just not on Wall Street. Smaller cities around the nation have emerged as unlikely hives of financial-services hiring, thanks to lower wages, municipal-tax incentives and the ... Read More

Newberry Group buys cmdLabs

The Newberry Group Inc., a St. Charles IT services and security firm, recently acquired cmdLabs LLC, a Baltimore-based digital forensics and incident response company, for an undisclosed sum. More ... Read More