January 23, 2011
Territories reward all manner of renewable energy use and green behavior. But the ultimate renewable, however unglamorous, may be the innovative technologies and policies that drive better energy efficiency.
January 23, 2011
Qadruple backup power and a move-in-ready building made the New Orleans area the logical choice for the WorldWinds Inc. super-computer.
January 23, 2011
Earth Advantage Institute, a nonprofit green building resource and research organization that has certified more than 11,000 sustainable homes
January 23, 2011
Have you ever wished you were monolithically integrated? If you’re a thin-film solar panel from California, then you have.
January 23, 2011
Indiana’s life sciences sector experienced a robust 2010 with companies committing to create more than 4,000 jobs, the highest annual figure in several years.
January 23, 2011
For biotech to blossom in any European region, several key parameters must exist locally and simultaneously:
January 23, 2011
A mid-December search of the comprehensive industrial facilities database maintained by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corp. (PRIDCO) showed approximately 57 pharmaceutical-related plants
January 20, 2011
How does a company that has set the environmental benchmark so high with the products they sell ensure that their own massive and far-flung operations conform with the sustainability standards they are helping other companies meet? This was the challenge for Siemens Corp., the world’s largest provider of environmental technologies, a multinational conglomerate that generates […]
January 18, 2011
The relatively few, isolated incidents of oil coming ashore were dealt with quickly and efficiently, say economic developers along the Gulf Coast, but the national press never bothered to report the full story on the cleanup.
January 18, 2011
Only five years after accession to the European Union, Poland was the only EU nation to show GDP growth in 2009, as the rest of the EU and most of the world faltered.
January 17, 2011
Four of the world’s leading chemical companies recently began production at major new facilities in China.
January 16, 2011
In one corner of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, where unemployment figures are among the highest in the nation, the heart of the community is both at stake and on display
January 14, 2011
The CEO of the South Baldwin Chamber on the Alabama coast wants the rest of America to know that, despite the calamitous effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, her community is resilient and poised to rebound.
January 13, 2011
The tale of Viper Motorcycles’ move from Minnesota’s Twin Cities region to Auburn, Ala., involves weather, state governors and a search for the perfect place to assemble a US$37,000 bike.
January 12, 2011
When your company has spent the past two decades establishing global dominance by rolling out the largest inventory of state-of-the-art industrial distribution facilities in the world, what do you do for an encore?
January 5, 2011
The November elections weren’t the only topic of conversation at the Mid-America Economic Development Council (MAEDC) 2010 Competitiveness Conference in Chicago last month, but they continued to reverberate through many of the subjects discussed by a panel of site selection consultants.
January 5, 2011
The post-election, lame duck 111th Congress got lots of things done as this issue came together in December, one of which was actually good for the U.S. as a location for business and industry.
January 4, 2011
The following pages highlight recent corporate facility projects, new laws and incentives policies, wages, employment, demographics and infrastructure facts in one easy-to-digest compendium.
December 21, 2010
Sure you’d expect giant solar power plants to be announced in Southern California or Texas. But the southern Great White North?
December 21, 2010
A landmark eminent domain victory in Jacksonville two years ago is finally moving toward imminent imports of Colombian coal.
December 21, 2010
The federal moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas “is and was unnecessary from the outset,” says a former oil industry insider who now campaigns for affordable energy in the U.S.
December 20, 2010
IBM-Plant Location International’s Global Location Trends Report 2010 is now available online
December 20, 2010
Thirty years ago, the late Jim
Ryan, eventual CEO of Ryan
Companies US, Inc. from
1989 until his death from
cancer in 2009 at the age of
66, was the project manager for Target
Corp.’s fourth retail store
December 16, 2010
The German city of Essen is the Pittsburgh of North Rhine Westphalia.