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 […]
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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 […]
Program seeks to boost profile of wood-products industry in SE Ohio
The wood-products business in Ohio contributes an estimated $22 billion a year to the state’s economy. While that may sound like a lot, Craig Rosenlund thinks the number could and should be higher… a lot higher. Rosenlund works with the Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth in Nelsonville, where he is senior product associate for a […]
Chillicothe ranked 39th top micropolitan area in U.S.
CHILLICOTHE – In the scorecard of economic development, Chillicothe has put some more points on the board. For the third time in the last five years and the second straight year, Chillicothe has been named to Site Selection Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Micropolitan Areas in the U.S. for its development performance in 2015. In […]
Scioto, Lawrence counties to partner
In recognizing the possibility for economic development along U.S. 52 in Scioto and Lawrence counties, the Southern Ohio Port Authority and the Lawrence Economic Development Corporation have formed a partnership. The two agencies have had a working relationship for a while, and their latest collaboration could result in the formation of an industrial park in Scioto County. At […]
Belmont County Ethane Cracker To Bring Others, Official Believes
Most of the steel mills, glass factories and other plants that once employed tens of thousands along the Ohio River are closed, but officials believe landing the $5.7 billion ethane cracker complex in Belmont County would allow Ohio and West Virginia to become manufacturing powerhouses once again. So plentiful is the oil and natural gas […]
Riffle launches another plant expansion
CHILLICOTHE — Riffle Machine Works is expanding again. Chris Manegold, CEO of the Economic Development Alliance of Southern Ohio, appeared Monday on behalf of the company before Ross County Commissioners seeking approval of a 10-year, 50-percent tax abatement to construct a third 100,000-square-foot structure on the Riffle campus off Ohio 159. The expansion, which would initially be […]
