The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) joined Heartland Community College to break ground on its new state-of-the-art Electric Vehicle Energy Storage (EVES) Manufacturing Training Academy (MTA) facility. Funded in part by a $7.5 million capital grant as…
DuPont Chooses Delaware for Expansion of Semiconductor Materials Production
DuPont Semiconductor Technologies, a business unit of DuPont Electronics & Industrial, and a leading producer of specialty materials used in the production of semiconductors, has chosen Glasgow, Delaware, for a $50 million expansion in response to growing industry demand. Following…
Ally Expanding Operations in Wilmington, Delaware
Ally Financial Inc. (AFI), has chosen to grow its recently acquired Fair Square Financial credit card and lending operations by expanding Fair Square’s current Wilmington, Delaware, footprint and almost tripling its current 75-member workforce there. Fair Square Financial started in…
Hilmar Cheese Breaks Ground on Facility in Dodge City
Gov. Kelly participated in the groundbreaking of Hilmar Cheese Company’s new state-of-the-art production facility in Dodge City, Kansas. In the short-term, the company’s $600 million investment will create 250 new full-time jobs. The project is expected to bring an additional…
JOCO Leaders Begin Gathering Input for Workforce Strategy
Leaders from across a broad spectrum of Johnston County education, workforce and economic development have begun reaching out to local stakeholders, inviting them to offer their perspectives on the county’s current and anticipated talent and laborforce needs. That input will…
Suffolk City Council Approves Rezoning of Virginia Port 460 Logistics Center
Suffolk City Council members voted last Wednesday to approve the rezoning of Matan Companies’ Port 460 Logistics Center project in Virginia from general commercial and agriculture use to M-2 industrial. The 540-acre site, located at the intersection of US-460 and…