Manufacturing

Swift Prepared Foods Announces Plans to Build $200M Facility in Missouri

Swift Prepared Foods, a leading global food company, announced today that Columbia, Missouri, has been selected for its new Italian meats and charcuterie production facility. For the past several months, the ... Read More

Carlisle Construction Materials Announces Plans to Build New Manufacturing Facility in Missouri

The economic resurgence continues in Missouri with new investments from companies across several industries. Carlisle Construction Materials LLC (CCM) is the latest company to announce plans to expand with a new ... Read More

Missouri Powered Mars Rover Snaps Aerial Photo with First of Its Kind Helicopter

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took a photo hovering above the surface of Mars. The photo was taken during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity Mars ... Read More

U.S. Department of Commerce, Missouri Boost Training for Missouri’s Growing Workforce

Construction is ready to begin on the Ranken-Ashland Skilled Trade Training Facility, a construction trade and medical services workforce development training center, in Ashland, Missouri. The completed project is expected to ... Read More

U.S. Navy Blue Angels Fly Missouri-Made Fighter Jets For 35 Years

Missouri’s workforce makes many impressive products across several industries – from the best-selling trucks and vans in the U.S. to innovative products that are reshaping animal health. But one that soars ... Read More

Missouri-Made Product Catches Big Fish on TV’s “Shark Tank”

StepNpull, a Springfield, Missouri-based innovator and manufacturer, struck a “wonderful” deal on network television. Investor Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, agreed to inject $300,000 into the business on a recent episode ... Read More

Anheuser-Busch Investing $100 Million In Innovative Renewable Company in Missouri

Global brewing company Anheuser-Busch recently announced that it will invest $100 million into a new innovative grain repurposing facility on its St. Louis brewery campus. EverGrain, an Anheuser-Busch backed company that ... Read More

Expansion Solutions Magazine: Shovel-Ready Sites Provide Plenty of Development Opportunities in 2021

Economists at the Federal Reserve expect the U.S. economy to grow in 2021 by 4 percent and unemployment to decline to 5.5 percent. Investment banker Morgan Stanley predicts real GDP growth ... Read More

Missouri Agtech Company Innovating New Ways to Produce Rubber from Sunflowers

A Missouri agtech company is finding new ways to produce rubber – from sunflowers. Edison Agrosciences, based in St. Louis, Missouri, recently received a $1 million grant to research the crop’s ... Read More

John Deere Invests in Springfield, Missouri

John Deere Reman, the remanufacturing division of Deere & Company, has announced plans to invest and grow in Springfield, Missouri. The new investment will add drivetrain and hydraulic remanufacturing operations to ... Read More