by - October 5, 2016 10:06 am
Entergy Arkansas will sponsor Manufacturing Day 2016 at the South campus of Pulaski Technical College in Little Rock on Friday (Oct. 7), hosting more than 1,100 middle and high school…
by - October 3, 2016 8:23 pm
Poultry companies like Tyson Foods, Simmons Foods, O.K. Foods and Georges Inc. enjoyed fatter margins through the late summer months of July and August in part because of lower feed…
by - October 3, 2016 5:52 pm
Arkansas and the rest of the Mid-America regional economy are stuck in reverse as the yearlong downturn in the manufacturing, farming and energy sectors is spreading across other business sectors….
by - October 3, 2016 4:13 pm
Mac Fasteners Inc., a high-volume manufacturing of screws and bolts for the aerospace industry, plans to shut down its 25,000-square foot plant in Paris, Ark., and consolidate that facility into…
by - September 28, 2016 2:02 pm
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced Tuesday (Sept. 28) that 12 metropolitan areas across the country will be redesignated as “Manufacturing Communities” through 2018 as a part of the…
by - September 27, 2016 5:30 pm
A national manufacturing trade organization has cited rising health care costs and regulatory compliance as the top two barriers to growth U.S. manufacturers are facing. The National Association of Manufacturers…
by - September 23, 2016 11:30 am
Lecheek Nutrition announced Friday (Sept. 23) its investing $6.7 million in a new 437,000-SF facility that will create 100 new jobs in Harrison over the next four years.
by - September 18, 2016 9:56 am
The U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report for July revealed the fourth consecutive month of declines within the manufacturing technology industry, according to the Association of Manufacturing Technology. AMT compiles the…
by - September 14, 2016 4:46 pm
MKT Fastening, a Lonoke-based construction anchor and fastener manufacturer, is an example of how the manufacturing sector might buck a decades-long trend in the U.S. and Arkansas. The company, owned…
by - September 12, 2016 12:00 am
The wet wipe manufacturing plant is one of 11 companies in Arkansas to mark this achievement since the state started recognizing workplace safety in 1976.
by - September 7, 2016 8:06 pm
Fort Smith-based OK Foods has won in a recent breach of contract suit filed against the company by poultry grower Earl Oldham of Stigler, Okla. Oldham sued the company for…
by - September 7, 2016 8:03 pm
A national manufacturing trade organization opposes the Obama administration for what it deems “another burdensome regulation.” National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) President and CEO Jay Timmons blasted the Department of…
by - September 1, 2016 7:23 pm
The weak business conditions across the nine-state Mid-America region that includes Arkansas continued in August as the energy and agriculture sectors weigh down on overall economic growth, according to Creighton…
by - August 31, 2016 5:07 pm
In its annual report on the U.S. auto industry called “Cars Move America,” the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers estimated that Arkansas contributed 62,000 jobs to the state’s labor pool in…
by - August 24, 2016 7:17 pm
The latest numbers from the Markit Flash U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) released on Aug. 23 show that production continues to improve in manufacturing even as new order growth…
by - August 18, 2016 5:12 pm
LSB Industries has announced second quarter results this week for the period ending June 30, 2016, reaching “two major milestones,” according to Daniel Greenwell, the company’s president and CEO, one…
by - August 18, 2016 5:06 pm
A national manufacturing alliance has weighed in on July’s modest manufacturing jobs growth, and the messaging is clear: modest is better than negative, but there is still more to do….
by - August 18, 2016 4:00 pm
The company is relocating its EVOL brand line from Boulder, Colorado, to the Fayetteville location, which will result in the addition of 25 new jobs over two years
by - August 17, 2016 3:11 pm
American Railcar Industries will add up to 60 jobs at a new manufacturing facility in Paragould. Corbitt Manufacturing, a component manufacturing operation with ARI, will begin production at the new…
by - August 11, 2016 10:13 am
The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce encountered a new and potentially serious problem that could hurt the state’s jobs market when they toured the Remington Arms Company Inc. in Lonoke…
