Manufacturing

Lack of available child care is holding companies and employees back 

More companies that rely on hourly shift workers are trying to fix the child...

Bernhard Capital Partners expands government services platform with acquisition 

Baton Rouge-based Bernhard Capital Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire North Carolina-based radar systems services provider Duotech Services.

LSU mechanical engineering students’ project could have industry applications  

As part of its senior capstone design project, a team of LSU mechanical engineering...

How Amazon is changing customer expectations in the industrial supply chain 

The petrochemical industry is in the middle of a transformation of sorts in terms of its logistics and supply chain processes.

South Louisiana turnarounds could max out labor as capital projects ramp up

A significant uptick in maintenance turnarounds is most definitely on the way, beginning this...

Bernhard Capital acquires VSE’s federal and defense business

Baton Rouge-based Bernhard Capital Partners announced it has acquired VSE Corp.'s federal and defense business segment. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Disruptions ease but CFOs remain focused on building supply chain resiliency

Surging shipping costs, freight logjams and factory disruptions in China over the past few years have laid bare companies’—and their finance chiefs’—need to boost supply chain resilience and adaptability, The Wall Street Journal reports. 

‘Incident’ at north Louisiana gunpowder facility highlights Pentagon struggles

Nearly two years ago, an errant spark inside a mill in north Louisiana caused an explosion so big it destroyed all the building’s equipment and blew a corrugated fiberglass wall 100 feet. 

Three warehouse units on Industriplex sell for a combined $2.2M

Three side-by-side units in the Metrocenter II warehouse park on Industriplex Boulevard were sold this week for the combined sum of $2.2 million.

St. Charles Clean Fuels looks at building a $4.6B reduced-carbon ammonia facility 

St. Charles Clean Fuels is exploring the feasibility of building a $4.6 billion ammonia...