< PreviousThe proposed tax plan, currently awaiting the governor’s signature, would lower the corporate income tax in Missouri from 6.25 percent today to 4 percent in January 2020.goes one step further, by skilling-up your existing workforce as new products or technology occurs. Skilled Workforce Missouri can provide resources and solutions that best fit your business.Missouri Works ProgramOne of Missouri’s signature programs to help create jobs and investment in Missouri, the Missouri Works program, offers achievable, flexible, and competitive benefits to companies investing in Missouri. The retention of the state withholding tax on the new jobs and/or state tax credits, which are refundable, transferable and/or saleable make this a powerful business attraction program for businesses that qualify. The program offers multiple categories with different minimum thresholds to fit the needs of almost any business considering Missouri. M I S S OU RI : M A K I NG . G R O W I NG . MO V I NG .27Propelled by a vibrant workforce of engineers, advanced manufacturing soarsAD V AN C E D MAN U F A C TU R I N Gith two major auto and truck assembly plants, plus another just over its western border, Missouri owns an enviable chunk of North America’s “automotive alley,” which stretches southward from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. e Kansas City metro area, where Ford makes the number-one selling F-150 and Chevrolet manufacturers the Malibu, by some estimations is the second-largest auto-industry hub in North America, after Detroit. Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant, which, before the F-150 produced such classics as the Falcon, Fairlane and Mercury Comet, has generated thousands of jobs and millions of tax dollars since it started production in 1951. In Wentzville, west of St. Louis, General Motors makes the Chevy Express and Chevy Colorado and their sister GMC vehicles, the Savana and Canyon. In 2017, Missouri automotive manufacturers built more than 756,000vehicles, and since 2010 more than $2.36 billion has been invested in Missouri’s automotive facilities. e state’s by G A R Y DAU G HTE R SWBoeing Defense, Space & Security manufactures military aircraft and munitions in St. Louis. Photo courtesy of BoeingTAKING FLIGHT28 M I S S OU RI : M A K I NG . G R O W I NG . MO V I NG .network of auto suppliers also feeds GM’s Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas City, Kansas.Nearly one in ten Missouri workers is employed in manufacturing, with automotive and aerospace being the sector’s largest components.Boeing Defense, Space & Security, in St. Louis has more than 14,000 employees in the state, makes the F/A-18, F-15 and EA-18G in Missouri. The company has announced that if it wins the highly-anticipated Defense Department contract to build the TX training jet, St. Louis will be the place. The contract is worth more than $600 million.Arnold Defense, in a suburb south of St. Louis, manufactures more than 1,000 rocket launchers per year. The company also serves a variety of markets beyond the military, including medical, transportation and original equipment manufacturers. Hazelwood-based GKN Aerospace builds parts for Boeing, Lockheed and other aerospace manufacturers. Orbital ATK Small Caliber Systems is a leading maker of ammunition at its Lake City plant in Independence.How to Engineer a WorkforceSupporting such knowledge-intensive enterprises requires a workforce heavy on engineers, and Missouri has the educational chops to sustain it.“We’ve got a number of universities and colleges and technical schools that are focused specifically on some of the aerospace and advanced manufacturing areas,” says Subash Alias, senior vice president of Missouri Partnership. Such educational offerings include automotive programs at Ranken Technical School in St. Louis and Kansas City’s Metropolitan Community College. St. Louis Community College maintains an aerospace training program that serves as a funnel for Boeing. Missouri University of Science and Technology enjoys a solid reputation for engineering.Missouri’s quarter-million strong manufacturing workforce also wins recruits from technical training courses that dip down into the state’s high schools. Missouri ranked 6th in 2015 for number of completed apprenticeships, with more than 8,600 total apprentices enrolled.2018 GMC Canyon SLT Diesel Photo by Jim FettsM I S S OU RI : M A K I NG . G R O W I NG . MO V I NG . 29LMV Automotive Systems employs approximately 340 people at its suburban Kansas City, Missouri, facility, where it manufactures welded body assemblies for automakers. LMV has entered a partnership with the Northland Center for Advanced Professional Studies (Northland CAPS), an organization that provides high school students with opportunities to gain exposure and skills related to high-demand, high-skill professions.“These students,” says Alias, “are actually working on real, live automotive issues on actual production lines.”LMV also used a state-funded programs to establish a training center anchored in robotic welding that helps develop weld technicians, tooling technicians and maintenance personnel. “We are proud,” says LMV General Manager Andy Hrasky, “to have built a strong partnership with the state of Missouri and the local community to create opportunities for our employees and build the automotive market in Kansas City.“Our world class manufacturing facility, now with its own world-class training center, gives us a competitive advantage and a solid position from which to grow with our customers.” Advanced Manufacturing in MissouriBrookings, 2013-20156th Best State for Annual Growth8th Best State for Output GrowthFAURECIA joins KC AUTO CORRIDORK C A U T O C ORR I D ORby R O N S TA R N E RThe Kansas City automotive corridor, already recognized by the Brookings Institute as the second-most important automotive center in the U.S., grew even larger on Feb. 15 when France-based Faurecia announced it would build a $60-million plant in Blue Springs.The sixth-largest international automotive parts manufacturer in the world, Faurecia will make interiors in its new 250,000-sq.-ft. facility on 25 acres on the north side of Interstate 70. The $19-billion company plans to hire 300 workers in the Kansas City metro area.“Faurecia is proud to open this new site and to provide new opportunities for local job seekers,” said Donald Hampton Jr., president of Faurecia Interiors in North America. “The Kansas City metro area and the Blue Springs area are known for being a source of excellence in American manufacturing, and we’re looking forward to building on that expertise and skill set as we continue to provide the very best to our customers.”A recent study by Brookings ranked the Kansas City area as the second-most important auto region in the country. The area is home to large auto manufacturing plants for General Motors and Ford, which have 30 M I S S OU RI : M A K IN G . G R O W IN G . M O V IN G .Photos courtesy of Faurecia“The Kansas City metro area and the Blue Springs area are known for being a source of excellence in American manufacturing.”— Donald Hampton Jr., President, Faurecia Interiors in North Americaexpanded to become the region’s largest manufacturing employers.“Kansas City offers a strong competitive advantage to growing manufacturing operations, particularly in the automotive industry,” said Tim Cowden, president and CEO of the Kansas City Area Development Council. “We are very proud to welcome Faurecia to our robust automotive cluster and look forward to the company’s success in our region.”The company said it selected the Kansas City region for its new U.S. plant because of its proximity to its customers and a skilled workforce that is familiar with the automotive manufacturing industry.“Kansas City is an attractive location for manufacturers because of the region’s competitive transportation costs, reducing production expenses, as well as our skilled workforce and central U.S. location,” said Chris Gutierrez, president of KC SmartPort.Founded in 1997, Faurecia has grown to become a major player in the global auto sector. With 300 sites including 30 R&D centers and 100,000 employees in 34 countries, Faurecia is recognized as a global leader in three areas: automotive seating, interior systems and clean mobility. The company is headquartered in Nanterre, France.Approximately one in four automobiles worldwide is equipped with Faurecia products or technology. M I S S OU RI : M A K I NG . G R O W I NG . MO V I NG . 3132 M I S S OU RI : M A K I NG . G R O W I NG . MO V I NG .R E MAN U F A C TU R I N Gremanufacturing produces more than $45 billion of remanufactured goods per year, supporting 180,000 full-time jobs. Missouri’s southwestern corner is the nation’s reman capital.Like the equipment it involves, the world of reman is straightforward and without pretension: It involves taking in costly pieces of equipment and components and completely cleaning, lubricating and rebuilding every single piece to the point of an end product that for all intents and purposes functions like a new one would, at a cost that can be from 20 percent to 40 percent less than new. The range of consumer products serviced by Springfield’s reman cluster by ADAM B R U N SU.S.M I S S OU RI : M A K I NG . G R O W I NG . MO V I NG . 33includes marine, automotive and large commercial equipment for the off-highway, agriculture, defense, construction, power generation, mining and trucking industries. Remanufactured equipment has to meet the same high standards for strength, integrity and precision as new equipment. As Case New Holland (CNH) explains, it’s not recycling. It’s not used. It’s not repaired, refurbished or restored. It’s reman.CNH has operated a robust reman operation in Springfield, Missouri — known as the reman capital of the United States — since 2009 through partnering with Springfield ReManufacturing Corp., now known as SRC Holdings. CNH adds about 600 products for CNH machinery every year and is now close to 4,000 total. A case study of its value shows the cost of a remanufactured New Holland 8970 tractor long block 7.5L 6-cyl engine to be $11,290 vs. a new engine costing $17,000 or more.Such savings make reman work. And Missouri works for the reman sector. Exhibit “A” is SRC Holdings, an employee-owned business whose open-book approach has led to the SRC story being told in more than 100 books. The company employs 1,500 associates across its 10 divisions, working in 2.2 million sq. ft. of manufacturing and warehouse space in Springfield. It’s made the top 25 in Forbes’ list of best small companies, and has spun off more than 60 business units. SRC continues to grow 34 M I S S OU RI : M A K I NG . G R O W I NG . MO V I NG .too: In May 2016, SRC Logistics, Inc., announced it was expanding within its Spring eld facility, creating 50 new jobs and investing about $700,000. As recently as January 2017, it showed 58 job openings — all but one of them in Missouri.Reman rms in the region are supported by focused programs at Ozarks Technical Community College and Missouri State University, as well as a unique, year-long learning experience called Greater Ozarks Centers for Advanced Professional Studies(GO CAPS), which allows high school juniors and seniors to test drive future career options while embedded in partner businesses. GO CAPS is managed by the Spring eld Area Chamber of Commerce and involves a consortium of 20 area school districts.Favorable OutlookOther reman operations in the southwestern corner of Missouri include John Deere Reman, Central States Industrial and Alliance Industries, which specializes in torque converters and transfer cases. But remanufacturers exist throughout the state. A 2012 study by researchers at Boston University reported more than 160 in Missouri. ey include MCI Cores in St. Louis, one of the largest buyers and suppliers of used automotive parts in the world, with more than 1 million parts, and Sterling Bearing, a national rm headquartered in Kansas City since its founding in 1936, with a catalog of more than 500,000 engine parts for domestic, import, heavy duty, agricultural, industrial and marine.How promising is reman as a growth industry? In the era of sustainability and cost savings, very. MERA — e Remanufacturing Association (formally known as the Motor & Equipment Remanufacturers Association) is the remanufacturing and sustainability division of the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association . MERA in 2017 launched the new Manufactured Again Certi cation Program, now up to 22 companies with a queue of others lined up for approval, including rms in Missouri.David McGuire II, MERA’s director of membership, says, “ ere is a favorable outlook for remanufacturing in this country,” in part because of success convincing the federal government of its value: e “Vehicle Repair Cost Savings Act” signed into law in 2015stipulates that federal agencies consider remanufacturing as a viable alternative to purchasing new parts and components. State governments have followed suit in Michigan, Massachusetts, California, New York, Tennessee and Florida. McGuire says MERA now is focused on lobbying for such legislation in other states, and “Missouri is a prime candidate.”In the meantime, the nexus for core material — the raw material for reman — continues to be located in the central core of the United States, where Missouri’s high-caliber manufacturing workforce continues to prove its mettle. worldwide remanufacturing energy savingsper year equals the electricity generated by remanufacturing 5NUCLEAR POWER PLANTSNUCLEAR 10,744 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL10,744 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL510,744Next >