A network of communities from across the 267,000 square miles of Texas
aims to bring together the assets of small-town Texas with the
requirements of growing small business and entrepreneurs looking for the
right place to land. Here are a few snapshots of some of those places,
and a directory of the growing network that is the Texas Economic
Development Connection.
As reported in the Tapei Times and other publications, chip testing and
packaging company Siliconware Precision Industries Co. (SPIL) plans to
build this new 2,800-job plant in Yunlin County’s Huwei Township,
“creating a new semiconductor hub in the agricultural county, the
Central Taiwan Science Park.” SPIL’s parent company, ASE Technology
Holding Co., is also pursuing a major expansion in Taoyuan’s Jhongli
District that will create another 2,000 jobs. ASE’s existing facilities
already employ 12,000 in Taiwan.
As reported by the Inquirer and other sources, Cemex Philippines has
invested in a new integrated cement line at its Solid Cement Plant in
Antipolo City, Rizal, located just east of the Manila metro area. The
expansion adds 1.5 million tons of capacity, bringing the total output
capacity of the 104-acre site to 3.4 million tons. “This expansion
project will not only meet infrastructure needs, but will also increase
the growth and development opportunities in the communities and in the
country,” said CEMEX Philippines President and CEO Luis Franco. “We will
maintain our active role in supporting the development of this nation as
we have done in the past 25 years, and I am confident that we will
continue to do so through collaboration and partnership.”
How can a company take its HQ virtual but still be planning
to have more offices? Ben Horowitz (pictured), a cofounder
and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen
Horowitz in Silicon Valley, announced last week how and why
his firm — a16z for short — is doing exactly that.
PHOTO OF THE
DAY
Photo by J.B. Spector courtesy of the
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
This photograph from the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry displays
the 120-foot copper-domed rotunda dome inside the museum. The
inscription reads: “Science discerns the laws of nature. Industry
applies them to the needs of man.” The museum opened in 1933, 18 years
after philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
was inspired by a visit to the Deutsches Museum in Munich with his son.
In 1926 he pledged $3 million (equivalent to $50 million today) toward a
museum of industry in Chicago, and the Palace of Fine Arts building in
Jackson Park, originally constructed for the World’s Columbian
Exhibition in 1893, was identified as its chosen location. Look for more
about industry in Chicago and across Illinois in the 2022 Illinois
Investment Guide coming later this summer from Conway Data’s Custom
Content division.
