Originally posted on The New Orleans Advocate
Regional business leaders are setting their sights in the year ahead on developing and growing local opportunities in advanced manufacturing, an industry that could employ skilled and well-paid workers.
That was the takeaway Monday from Greater New Orleans Inc.’s annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency …
If you’ve ever been responsible for initiating and constructing a new or expanding industrial facility, you probably experienced one or more of these issues in working with your utility: slow response time, generic service solutions, costly infrastructure build-out and impersonal customer service.
This is what happens when estimating and planning teams …
Originally posted on Talk Business and Politics
Newport has a certified 100-acre industrial development park, but it’s not large enough to attract enough job providers to Jackson County.
To lure industries to the region, the commission hopes to get a 3,200-acre swath certified by the state in 2017, Newport Economic Development …
Originally Posted On The Times-Picayune
Entergy Louisiana has received approval to build a new $869 million power plant in St. Charles Parish, part of a broader effort to strengthen power generation and transmission in a region that has seen a boom in industrial growth. The plant is expected to start …
Originally Posted on 4-traders
Entergy hosted a “Power Lunch” last week at Copiah-Lincoln’s Simpson County Center. The purpose was to bring business leaders in the community together to discuss ways the community can work with Entergy in the economic development arena as well as in developments within the Entergy company itself.
Entergy is working with communities …
Originally Posted on The Advocate
Occidental Chemical Corp. announced a $145 million expansion of the company’s manufacturing plant in Geismar to make refrigerants.
OxyChem said Monday its expansion will create 12 new jobs with an average salary of $80,000 a year, plus benefits. The plant employs 400 OxyChem employees and contractors.
The …
Originally Posted on The Advocate
Monsanto Co. pulled the trigger Tuesday on a $975 million expansion at its Luling plant that is expected to add about 100 full-time employees and 20 contractors to the site.
The Luling plant already has around 665 workers. Louisiana Economic Development estimates the project will result in an …
Originally posted on The Daily Leader
Entergy Mississippi recently announced the completion of its Brookhaven solar station, which will be used to harness the sun’s energy to help fuel Mississippi’s power grid.
Entergy received permission from the Mississippi Public Service Commission to install three 500,000-watt solar panel farms in the state …
