The Port Authority will host its first site selection best practices seminar on September 19. All area government leaders and Port Authority investors will learn about and discuss the modern site selection industry as Jefferson County strives for significant new investment in coming years. […]
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WATCH: The smokestack explosion at FirstEnergy’s Belmont County power plant
Demolitions are fun on their own, but it’s even better when they mean something more. A 854-foot concrete smokestack and 171-foot tall boiler house were felled by 450 pounds of explosives Friday morning in Belmont County. It’s part of continued clearing of the former R.E. Burger power plant in Shadyside as Thai company PTT Global Chemical […]
Highland County women’s achievements honored
Five women were honored Tuesday night for their outstanding achievements in the 2016 Highland County Women’s Hall of Fame ceremony at Southern State Community College in Hillsboro. Tuesday’s inductees were Anneka Collins for public affairs, Marilyn Morris Anders, Gayle Coss and Paige Juillerat for community service, and Mary Ann Sommers Larkin for education and community […]
Athens Mold & Machine Re-opening Doors
Athens Mold & Machine, a tire mold manufacturing company, is re-opening its doors in the City of Athens and has committed to creating 60-new manufacturing jobs over the next 3 years. The groundbreaking ceremony is slated for September 8th, 2016 at the AMM campus. […]
Playing the Long Game
Every once in a while you will hear a country, a politician or a company described as “playing the long game.” Urban Dictionary defines the phrase as “active participation in achieving goals which may take some time.” Other sources add that those playing the long-game may pass over short- or medium-term gains in order to […]
JobsOhio and APEG at worldwide trade show
What do President Obama, APEG, JobsOhio and 210,000 industrial leaders from around the globe all have in common? We all traveled to Hannover, Germany in April to attend the largest industrial trade show in the world, the Hannover Messe. Why did the President attend? There is no better place in the world to identify and […]
21st Century Buffalo Hunting
Many economic developers describe the art of attracting large domestic and foreign companies as “buffalo hunting.” Some praise the practice saying that bagging the big, migratory beast fills a lot of stewpots and benefits the whole tribe. Others criticize economic development as being too focused on buffalo, rather than on local firms – the rabbits, […]
Why Wood?
It may seem odd that APEG is putting so much effort into our wood products industry. In a world where technologies are introduced daily and whole new industries gear up to produce them, why focus so much attention on wood? After all, people have been making things with wood since we lived in caves! So, […]
Let’s Celebrate Manufacturing!
October is Ohio Manufacturing Month Ten years ago pundits were saying that manufacturing was dead in America, and that we don’t need manufacturing jobs. They were wrong then, and are even more wrong today. That’s great news for Appalachian Ohio. Why do we need manufacturing? Manufacturing is one of three or four industries that economists […]
Workforce Implications for Changes in Marijuana Testing
Starting a Conversation In his remarks at the 2015 State of the Region Conference, John Molinaro, president and CEO of the Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth, introduced the topic of workplace marijuana testing as a consideration for keeping qualified workers on the job. His excerpted comments follow. Many of the tests commonly used for drugs […]
