DILLES BOTTOM – A year ago Friday, Belmont County officials announced PTT Global Chemical’s intention to build a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker on the site of the former FirstEnergy R.E. Burger power plant. Today, contractors working for FirstEnergy Corp. are demolishing the shuttered power plant to make room for the massive petrochemical complex, which would […]
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AWF expands, becomes anchor point
Appalachian Wood Floors (AWF) of Portsmouth recently announced an expansion of their facility. The expansion corresponds with the Americas Best Communities (ABC) Community Revitalization Plan. AWF was recently awarded a JobsOhio Revitalization grant to rehabilitate the former Schaefer Super Market’s building on 8th Street in Portsmouth. AWF announced its intention to return the building to […]
Speyside barrels begin new era in Jackson
Salt, coal, iron ore, automobile parts, kitchen cabinets, and frozen food have all helped to define Jackson County’s long industrial/manufacturing history. However, within just a few weeks, another product will be added to the list when bourbon barrels start rolling out from a revitalized and reborn Jackson plant. Speyside Bourbon Cooperage, Inc. expects to begin […]
JobsOhio joins largest-ever U.S. Business Delegation to 2016 Hannover Messe in Germany
COLUMBUS, OH — (Marketwired) — 04/14/16 — JobsOhio today announced it is part of the largest-ever U.S. delegation to Hannover Messe, the world’s foremost trade fair for industrial technology taking place April 25-29, in Hannover, Germany. For the first time in the fair’s history, the United States will be the Partner Country. This status provides the […]
Next hot spot for virtual reality tech could be southern Ohio
Portsmouth-based Yost Labs Inc. has raised $1 million and expects sales to double this year for its motion-capturing sensors that are so fast they reduce the lag time that causes motion sickness in virtual reality. Leaders envision creating a virtual reality technology hub bringing jobs to southern Ohio. This southern Ohio company’s real-time motion-capturing sensors soon will […]
On the road towards America’s Best Community
PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth is one of 15 communities around the county competing for anywhere from $1 to $3 million dollars in prize money from the America’s Best Communities Competition. When the America’s Best Communities Competition was first announced there were roughly 400 communities throughout the United States involved. That pool of communities was narrowed to […]
AEP Ohio Awards Ohio’s First Quality Site Certification to Zahns Corner Industrial Park
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 16, 2016 — AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), awarded Ohio’s first AEP Quality Site Certification to Zahns Corner Industrial Park. This industrial park, located in Pike County, has passed a rigorous and thorough analysis and has met all certification criteria, including utility availability, ease to transportation routes […]
Yost Labs Closes $1 Million Series A Funding
Yost Labs, inventor and producer of the world’s most responsive and accurate gesture-tracking technology, announced a Series A investment of $1 million from a group of Ohio-based investors. This strategic investment is focused on efforts to accelerate market adoption of Yost Labs’ innovative sensors and real-time human movement motion-capture systems. “Yost Labs’ innovation pipeline is […]
Made Here: Logan company builds rods, tubes for top-selling trucks
If you drive a stick-shift Jeep Wrangler, the device you use to change gears is made at a factory in Logan. That is one of hundreds of parts made by Amanda Manufacturing, an auto-parts supplier whose sales are soaring along with U.S. demand for trucks. Many of the parts are rods or tubes that are […]
Job Expansion
The Morgan County Improvement Corporation (MCIC) along with Jobs Ohio, Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth (APEG), Morgan County Herald newspaper, and the Morgan County Commissioners’ and Business Development Office were invited on a tour of the Miba Sinter and MetalAxis facility, in McConnelsville, on Friday, Feb. 26. “Miba Sinter and MetalAxis, today, employees 220 white […]
