South Africa-Based Radél, Inc., a manufacturer of electro-mechanical components, plans to establish operations in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The $9 million project is expected to create 50 jobs in Forsyth County by 2029.
Forge Nano, Inc., a materials science company that enables peak performance products through atomic-level surface engineering, plans to establish lithium-ion battery operations in Morrisville, North Carolina. The more than $165 million project is exp
Epitome Energy will locate a soybean crushing plant in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The $400 million project is expected to create up to 60 jobs.
Grand Farm Education and Research Initiative, which is led by Emerging Prairie, a Fargo nonprofit that assists young entrepreneurs, plans to use a $10 million matching grant to build an innovation facility and advance autonomous agriculture technolog
CGB Enterprises, Inc. and Minnesota Soybean Processors formed a joint venture for the construction of a state-of-the-art soybean processing plant near Casselton, North Dakota. The project is expected to create 50 to 60 new jobs once fully operational
American multinational food processing and commodities trader ADM plans to build a soybean crushing plant and refinery in Spiritwood, North Dakota. The facility will meet the fast-growing demand from food, feed, industrial and biofuel customers, incl
Core Scientific, the leader in customizable infrastructure and software solutions for AI and Blockchain, will develop a mining and colocation hosting facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The project is expected to create up to 12 highly skilled, te
Carolina Coops, a custom chicken coop manufacturer, will invest $2.1 million to locate a production facility in Butner, North Carolina. The company plans to create 147 jobs over three years and up to 500 by 2026 in Granville County.
Amazon plans to open its first fulfillment center in the Peace Garden State in Fargo, North Dakota. The 1- million square-foot facility, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create 500 full-time jobs.
Ison Furniture Manufacturing, Inc., a North Carolina-based furniture manufacturer, will invest $3.5 million to acquire and renovate the recently closed A.C. Furniture Company, Inc. facility in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
A full-service engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction company, Saulsbury Industries recently opened its Northern Operations hub in Bismarck, North Dakota.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. will be expanding its Flight Test and Training Center at the Grand Sky Unmanned Aircraft System Business Park near Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Dakota Specialty Milling, Fargo, North Dakota-headquartered company, which opened its first mill on 12th Avenue North in 1969, is expanding operations at a total cost of over $15 million.
Ernst & Young, one of the largest professional services organizations in the world, will invest $8.2 million to expand its operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina, creating 375 jobs in Mecklenburg County over the next five years.
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.
Pipeline Foods, a U.S.-based supply chain solutions company focused exclusively on non-GMO and organic food and feed, is building a new state-of-the-art grain terminal in Bowbells, North Dakota.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. opened its new Flight Test and Training Center hangar at the Grand Sky Unmanned Aircraft System Business Park near Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Toyota Motor Corporation and Mazda Motor Corporation signed a joint venture agreement to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant somewhere in the United States.
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
NuTek Food Science, a company that helps create great-tasting and affordable foods to enhance global health, opened its new 100,000 square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Fargo, North Dakota. The plant is designed to produce its patented and revolutionary NuTek Salt.
General Atomics, an aviation company, plans to establish an unmanned aerial systems training academy at the Grand Sky, North Dakota, UAS business and technology park. The company plans to begin construction this fall on a 16,000-square-foot hangar on
Evolution1, a growing technology company, began construction on its $8 million, 40,000 square foot, operations center in West Fargo, North Dakota.
Appareo Systems, celebrated its expansion by dedicating a new building that will more than double the electronics and software design company’s headquarters and manufacturing facility in Fargo, North Dakota.
Bobcat Company plans to invest $9.5 million in an expansion project that will double the size of its headquarters in West Fargo, North Dakota.
Midwest AgEnergy Group started operations on the company’s new 65 million-gallon-per-year biorefinery located next to Great River Energy’s Spiritwood Station near Jamestown, North Dakota.
A joint venture of MDU Resources Group, Inc. and Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P., The Dakota Prairie refinery recently began operations about four miles west of Dickinson, North Dakota. The refinery will employ 80 full-time workers and market its diesel fuel throughout the region.
ComDel Innovation and Altavian signed a $3.2 million agreement to manufacture unmanned aerial systems and UAS components at ComDel’s high-tech manufacturing plant in Wahpeton, North Dakota.
A leading authorized online retailer of tools and equipment, Acme Tools opened its new 40,000 square foot distribution center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Built on a 9-acre site in the Grand Forks Business Park, located adjacent to and west of Interstate 29, Acme Tools was the first company to purchase land in the business park.
ONEOK Partners, L.P. plans to invest approximately $480 million to $680 million between now and the end of the third quarter 2016 to construct natural gas processing facilities in Dunn County, North Dakota and Campbell County, Wyoming.
CHS Inc., a global agriculture and energy business, plans to construct a $3 billion fertilizer manufacturing plant at Spiritwood, North Dakota.
ONEOK Partners’ Garden Creek II plant, a 100-million cubic feet per day natural gas processing facility in eastern McKenzie County, North Dakota, is now operational. The new plant is part of the partnership's previously announced $7 billion to $7.5 billion capital-growth program through 2016.
Bobcat Company completed construction of its $28 million, two-story, 190,000 square foot, Acceleration Center in Bismarck, North Dakota’s Northern Plains Commerce Centre. The Acceleration Center will serve as a key engineering facility for Bobcat and its parent company, Doosan.
ONEOK Partners, plans to invest approximately $605 million to $785 million between now and the end of the third quarter 2016 to build a new 200-million cubic feet per day natural gas processing facility – the Demicks Lake plant – and related infrastr
A 90-year old global chemical distributor of industrial and specialty chemicals and related chemistry services, Univar Inc. opened its new, permanent facility in Dickinson, North Dakota, to support its oil and gas business in the Williston Basin.
North Dakota LNG announced construction of a liquefied natural gas processing facility in the city of Tioga, the first of its kind in North Dakota.
Air Liquide Industrial U.S. started operations at its new nitrogen production plant in Tioga, North Dakota. The plant will increase the region’s nitrogen supply, further supporting growth in drilling operations in the oil-rich Bakken reserves.
Alliance Grain Traders is expanding its Minot, North Dakota, pulses ingredient production facility. With a focus on manufacturing of pulses ingredient flours, proteins, starches and fibres, the $4 million expansion and installation of a second produc
Dakota Plains Holdings, Inc. said construction is nearly completed on its Pioneer Terminal expansion project, located in Mountrail County, North Dakota, with commissioning set for Dec. 18.
Energy company, ONEOK Partners plans to build its sixth and largest natural gas processing plant in western North Dakota’s Lonesone Creek. The Oklahoma-based company also plans to expand the capacity of its Bakken NGL pipeline.
Mannington Mills, a manufacturer of luxury vinyl tile, will expand its Morgan County, Georgia, production facility, creating 219 jobs over the next few years.
Minot, North Dakota, International Airport began construction on a $40 million 115,000 square foot terminal, which will be more than three times the size of the current terminal and include six gates, additional space for car rental companies and tic
After completing expansion of its Berthold, North Dakota, rail terminal and Bakken pipeline expansion, Enbridge Pipelines LLC is now launching its Sandpiper Pipeline project.
Midwest AgEnergy Group, an upper Midwest biofuels enterprise owned by Great River Energy, started construction on its new $155 million biorefinery that will produce ethanol, distillers grains and fuel-grade corn oil. The biorefinery, to be built in the Spiritwood Energy Park east of Jamestown, North Dakota, will produce 65 million gallons of ethanol annually, 198,000 tons of distillers grains for livestock feed and 6,900 tons of fuel-grade corn oil for use in biodiesel.
Northern Plains Nitrogen will build a $1.5 billion fertilizer plant in Grand Forks, North Dakota, which Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation officials said will employ approximately 135 full time employees in operations, maintenance, e
Bobcat Company began construction on the company’s new Acceleration Center, a $20 million renovation and expansion project at the Northern Plains Commerce Centre in Bismarck, North Dakota. The company said its Acceleration Center will be a high-tech facility for advancing innovation, and designing and testing products to keep Bobcat the leader in the compact equipment industry.
MDU Resources Group, Inc. and Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. began construction of the Dakota Prairie Refinery, on a 318-acre site located west of Dickinson in Stark County, North Dakota The refinery, which is expected to cost between $280 million and $300 million, will process 20,000 barrels per day of Bakken crude oil. It is estimated the facility will employ 400 to 500 employees during peak construction and about 100 employees when it is operating.
After what state officials categorized as a long waiting period, The US Environmental Protection Agency approved a renewable fuels certification for Dakota Spirit AgEnergy’s proposed biorefinery, which will be constructed near Jamestown, North Dakota.
MDU Resources and Indiana-based Calumet Specialty Products Partners formed a joint venture, Dakota Prairie Refining, to build and operate a diesel refinery capable of processing 20,000 barrels of Bakken crude oil per day in southwestern North Dakota.
Deere & Company plans a $20 million, 100,000 square foot, expansion of its Valley City, North Dakota crop seeder and tillage equipment manufacturing plant, with the company planning to hire from 50 to 100 additional workers in the next five years bas
Pipeline Plastics, a Texas-based pipeline manufacturer, will expand its operations to Belle Fourche, South Dakota, with the construction of its second high-density polyethylene pipe plant, creating up to 40 full-time jobs.
Bobcat Company, a manufacturer of construction vehicles and compact attachments, plans a more than $8 million expansion of its Manufacturing Support Center in Bismarck, North Dakota, and acquisition of property at the Northern Plains Commerce Center to create an Innovation Center for product development and testing.
Ultra Green, a manufacturer of environmentally friendly, biodegradable products, plans to open a wheat straw pulping and molding factory in Devils Lake, North Dakota, with a promise to eventually create as many as 400 jobs in the northern part of the
Over the past five years, just nine states—and the District of Columbia—were able to positively offset job losses with new jobs
Caterpillar Inc. has announced a $50 million expansion project for its West Fargo plant which includes a 225,000-sq.-ft. addition.
A new mid-year employment trends analysis has discovered that Texas is the Top Dog of all the states when it comes to creating jobs in America.
The world’s leading supplier to the wind turbine industry--LM Wind Power (LMWP)--will open its first U.S-based global R&D office in Grand Forks, ND, later this year at the University of North Dakota's Research Enterprise and Commercialization (REAC)
Northrop Grumman will operate its unmanned aerial systems at North Dakota's Grand Forks Air Force base, creating 100 jobs.
Tesoro Corporation will invest $35 million to expand crude oil capacity at its Mandan, North Dakota, refinery.
Unemployment generally declined during the month of June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
Search giant invests $38.8 million in two wind farms in an effort to accelerate renewable energy adoption.
Dakota Salts has received a $225,000 grant to study the feasibility of drilling for the mineral potash in North Dakota's Williston Basin.
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