Manufacturing

Baton Rouge marine services company expands 

Team Services announced last week it will expand its services for the transportation and logistics industries. 

DEQ deciding fate of planned Mitsubishi chemical plant in Geismar

The fate of a Mitsubishi Chemical plant in Ascension Parish is now in the hands of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, WAFB-TV reports.

Manufacturers are hiring, but there’s no one to fill the jobs

The manufacturing sector is facing a serious worker shortage. The manufacturing sector is facing a serious worker shortage.

Central Louisiana crawfish farms providing a bit of hope for season

The current projections for the 2024 crawfish season in Louisiana have been troubling for farmers and consumers alike as limited supply due to drought, extreme heat and late fall weather conditions are expected to make prices soar to historic levels.

Port NOLA’s $1.8B Louisiana International Terminal gets a $226M grant 

The largest public economic development project in state history has now received the biggest economic development grant in Louisiana history, reports New Orleans City Business.

Land for a distribution warehouse near former Cortana Mall fetches $2.6M

More than 18 acres earmarked for a new distribution warehouse near the former Cortana Mall site traded hands last week for $2.6 million. 
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How Angola has become essential to the U.S. food supply 

A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here in Louisiana, at an unlikely source—the former slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison: Angola. 

Food service equipment company setting up national operations in Caddo Parish 

Lincoln Foodservice Equipment, a Welbilt brand company that produces commercial-grade foodservice equipment, is establishing a new U.S. operations center at Welbilt’s existing site in Caddo Parish.

Retailers revert to old strategies after pandemic shake-ups 

Businesses are going back to “just-in-time” inventory management after four years of struggling to...

ExxonMobil completes $230M upgrade of Baton Rouge refinery

ExxonMobil on Thursday announced that a $230.5 million, three-year modernization initiative at its aging north Baton Rouge refinery has been completed.