Over 400 attend Manufacturing Day at Vertiv There was a Manufacturing Day event held at Vertiv in Ironton on Thursday. The focus this year was on women in manufacturing and the keynote speaker was Carolyn Mendel, the plant manager of General Mills in Wellston. The company makes Totino’s pizza and pizza rolls. She talked about […]
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PTT Global Signs Cracker MOU with JobsOhio
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – PTT Global Chemical has signed a memorandum of understanding with JobsOhio, an indication that the Thailand-based petrochemicals giant hasn’t walked away from its plans to build a $6 billion ethane cracker plant in Belmont County. According to a release posted on the company’s website, PTTGC America’s president and CEO, Toasaporn Boonyapipat, signed […]
Wastren Advantage, Inc. Named One of America’s Safest Companies
PIKETON, OH — Wastren Advantage, Inc. is one of 13 companies on the list of America’s Safest Companies (ASC), selected by EHS Today, a national environmental, health and safety magazine. The editors of the magazine focused on the “ownership of safety” at the more than 100 companies nationwide that applied for the “America’s Safest” designation. […]
Ohio’s Utica Natural Gas Helps Lead The Shale Revolution
Thanks to the Utica and even part of Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale plays, Ohio is now one of our of major natural gas producing states. Despite low prices in the $3.00 range, producers in the Utica have added 10 rigs since early-March to now total 29. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources reports that 2Q gas production hit 4.3 Bcf/d, up […]
Ethane storage hub could mean jobs for Appalachia
CANONSBURG, Pa. –West Virginia University researchers believe a Marcellus and Utica shale ethane storage hub could help create $36 billion in investment and more than 100,000 permanent jobs. Brian Anderson, a WVU Energy Institute director, on Tuesday said drillers throughout the region are producing about 460,000 barrels of ethane per day — almost three times […]
Leesburg, Washington industrial parks among 8 properties ‘SiteOhio authenticated’ by JobsOhio
JobsOhio and its regional partners announced this week eight Ohio sites have been SiteOhio authenticated. When a project is verified with the SiteOhio seal, it is guaranteed to be ready for development on day one, saving businesses time and money. Ohio’s exclusive SiteOhio authentication process designates property within the state that have infrastructure and utilities […]
Ohio’s First P3 is its Biggest Road Project Ever
For more than 50 years, Ohio Dept. of Transportation officials have been talking about bypassing Portsmouth, Ohio, the county seat of Scioto County. By entering into a public-private partnership and allowing the P3 to write new specifications and adopt innovations from highway projects around the U.S., the agency not only got construction moving, but also […]
Appalachia joins the race for the multibillion-dollar petrochemicals boom
The Appalachian region is beginning to attract investment in petrochemical facilities. Growing natural gas production in the region is a major draw for chemical companies, which use fossil fuel byproducts to make plastics. A second petrochemical hub in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia would compete with facilities on the U.S. Gulf coast and create […]
Thai company moves ahead with land purchase for petrochemical plant
An Asian company considering building a giant petrochemical plant in eastern Ohio has bought land that could be used for the project if it moves forward. PTT Global Chemical of Thailand bought the 168-acre site in Belmont County last month from Akron utility company FirstEnergy for $13.8 million, according to Belmont County property records. The […]
NCB ranked one of best employers in Ohio for third year in a row
National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading financial institution which provides banking products and services to southern Ohio and the nation’s cooperatives, their members and other socially responsible organizations, is pleased to announce that it has been ranked number 20 on the large companies list for the 2017 Best Employers in Ohio. This is the third […]
