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Chinese investment in St. James Parish remains on track

Yuhuang Chemical’s multiphase, $1.85 billion methanol plant in St. James Parish is on track...

Vitter gets a signature win with a new law regulating chemicals

It took five years and lots of bipartisan wrangling, but Republican Sen. David Vitter...

MUDBUG and Spider highlight new products

Chet Morrison Contractors of Houma debuted a new tool for cleaning drilling and production...

Why worker productivity is in decline and what contractors can do about it

Contractors typically lean upon established industry norms to calculate their expectations for a typical...

Entrepreneur: John Kelly

(Photography by Don Kadair) POSITION Founder and CEO COMPANY EcoLite International WHAT THEY DO Manufacturer and value-added reseller of light-emitting...

Capital Region industrial facilities spared major damage, but many employees impacted

The area’s massive industrial infrastructure has weathered the historic floods relatively unscathed. But so...

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How one Baton Rouge entrepreneur has engineered an international pepper empire that he never aimed to build

Chris White says all three of his companies— Chemetec, Braid Logistics North America and...

An LSU Innovation Park joint venture is working to capitalize on corrosion problems plaguing the U.S. Department of Defense

Courtney Carter, left, and Joe Hill pull out a roll of polyurethane for cutting...

‘Business Report’ reveals 2016 listing of Top 100 private companies in the Capital Region

The top five companies on Business Report’s annual ranking of the Capital Region’s largest...

New marine applications and rising Chinese demand are fueling hopes of a new boom for methanol makers

Companies like Methanex are hoping the conversion of more marine vessels to run on...