AVAIO Digital Partners, a developer and operator of sustainable, hyperscale data centers, plans to establish operations in Pulaski County, Arkansas. The approximately $6 billion project is expected to create more than 500 jobs over the next five years.
Google plans to establish cloud and artificial intelligence data center operations in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Preformed Line Products Company, a major manufacturer of energy and telecommunications products, will expand its operations in Rogers, Arkansas. The $16 million project is expected to create 50 jobs.
Apple is undertaking a new set of investments to build on its commitment to support the American economy and its workforce, which includes breaking ground on a new facility in downtown Reno, Nevada, which will support its existing facilities.
Simmons Feed Ingredients, an affiliate of Simmons Foods Inc., opened its 72,000-square-foot ingredient facility in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
Domtar, a leading provider of a wide variety of fiber-based products including communication, specialty and packaging papers, market pulp and absorbent hygiene products, completed a major expansion of its manufacturing mill, with the startup of a newly converted fluff pulp operation, in Ashdown, Arkansas.
In mid-July, PwC released its Q2 2016 Manufacturing Barometer, which surveyed senior executives at U.S.-based industrial manufacturing firms to determine their assessment of the direction of the nation’s economy, as well as their projections for thei
Cushman & Wakefield has announced that U.S. industrial markets absorbed a record-setting 70.1 million square feet (msf) of space in the second quarter of 2016, up 6.0 percent from the same period a year ago, and resulting in year-to-date absorption o
The Material Works Ltd. will build a $20 million advanced flat rolled toll processing center adjacent to the new Big River Steel mill in Osceola, Arkansas, where it plans to create 45 jobs. Construction will begin in second quarter 2015 with the facility expected to be fully operational to coincide with Big River Steel’s opening in 2016.
Georgia-Pacific plans to invest $37 million at its Gurdon, Arkansas, lumber facility to expand production capacity of its mill by approximately 60 percent.
Clean Harbors, North America’s leading provider of environmental, energy and industrial services, began construction on its new $100 million incineration unit in El Dorado, Arkansas.
Big River Steel began construction on its new $1.3 billion steel mill and recycling facility in Osceola, Arkansas.
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