by - April 2, 2019 10:34 am
The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose 1.1 percentage points to 55.3% in March, from February, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). A reading above 50% indicates the manufacturing…
by - April 1, 2019 7:20 pm
Springdale-based nanotechnology company NanoMech recently laid off a portion of its workforce and looks to be headed for bankruptcy in order to be sold after being sued twice for not…
by - April 1, 2019 12:09 pm
U.S. steelmaker Nucor Corp. has announced plans to build its new state of the art steel plate mill in Brandenburg, Ky., located along the Ohio River southwest of Louisville. The…
by - March 31, 2019 10:58 am
Siloam Springs-based poultry producer Simmons Foods Inc. and Affiliates plans to open a 315,000-square-foot chicken processing plant by the end of this year as construction on the $300 million plant…
by - March 29, 2019 4:37 pm
Springdale-based nanotechnology company NanoMech has been sued again for not paying its debt — this time for more than $1 million. Daniel Carroll of Michigan filed a complaint in the…
by - March 26, 2019 2:32 pm
Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. has partnered with other utility companies, construction contractors, state agencies and community colleges to form the Arkansas Energy Workforce Consortium. The consortium has launched a new…
by - March 21, 2019 1:59 pm
New orders for manufactured goods rose 0.1%, or by $300 million, to $500.5 billion in January, from December, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The January rise followed a 0.1%…
by - March 20, 2019 4:31 pm
Five lubricant distributors across the southeastern United States, including Mid-South Sales of Jonesboro, have merged to form Cadence Petroleum Group of Asheboro, N.C. Along with Mid-South Sales, the new company…
by - March 18, 2019 2:16 pm
U.S. manufacturing corporations’ seasonally adjusted after-tax profits declined 1.1%, or by $1.7 billion, to $154.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, from the previous quarter, according to the U.S….
by - March 14, 2019 4:21 pm
New orders for manufactured durable goods in January rose 0.4%, or by $900 million, to $255.3 billion, from December, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This is the third consecutive…
by - March 13, 2019 2:21 pm
Lockheed Martin has developed the first system that will provide reliable 4G LTE cell phone service to existing cell phones through hot spots that receive the service from satellites, according…
by - March 7, 2019 5:23 pm
CoorsTek held a groundbreaking ceremony at its Benton location Thursday (March 7) for a $26 million, 50,000-square-foot expansion that will increase its workforce of 200 there by about 15%. The…
by - March 7, 2019 2:25 pm
Mervin Jebaraj, economist with the University of Arkansas Walton College of Business, says the fourth quarter earnings of publicly traded companies supports his theory that 2019 will be less robust…
by - March 6, 2019 2:20 pm
Sales of U.S. wholesalers rose 5.9% to $7.6 trillion in 2017, from $7.2 trillion in 2016, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The estimates, which were released…
by - March 6, 2019 1:07 pm
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s industrial site in Camden is likely to be apportioned a significant amount of work from the Pentagon’s nearly $1 billion contract to provide so-called THAAD missiles to…
by - March 1, 2019 10:35 am
The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) declined 2.4 percentage points to 54.2% in February, from January. A reading above 50% indicates the manufacturing economy is generally expanding and below 50% indicates…
by - March 1, 2019 5:55 am
The nation’s economy in the fourth quarter grew at its slowest pace since the first three months of 2018 as consumer and business spending pushed real GDP growth to a…
by - February 28, 2019 6:58 pm
Officials with Van Buren-based Arkansas Lighting announced Thursday (Feb. 28) they had acquired Prima Lighting, which will significantly expand its product offering and customer base. The acquisition is effective Friday…
by - February 26, 2019 7:24 pm
As the U.S. job market continues to tighten with the national unemployment rate at 4%, employers are spending more time training new hires as they enter the workforce or switch…
by - February 25, 2019 8:06 pm
The former Hutcheson shoe facility in east Fort Smith has been donated to the Fort Smith Public School District for use as the career and technology center planned under the…
