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Locations that have diversified their high-tech growth sectors are well-positioned to thrive in a new age of manufacturing efficiency. The factory of the future has arrived, a.k.a. manufacturing 4.0.


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Locations that have diversified their high-tech growth sectors are well-positioned to thrive in a new age of manufacturing efficiency. The factory of the future has arrived, a.k.a. manufacturing 4.0.
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    Latest: Manufacturing 4.0 Has Arrived - Locations that have diversified their high-tech growth sectors are well-positioned to thrive in a new age of manufacturing efficiency. The factory of the future has arrived, a.k.a. manufacturing 4.0.

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    Advanced Manufacturing

    Manufacturing 4.0 Has Arrived

    Locations that have diversified their high-tech growth sectors are well-positioned to thrive in a new age of manufacturing efficiency. The factory of the future has arrived, a.k.a. manufacturing 4.0.
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    Kentucky: GM Bowling Green Plant To Add 400 Jobs

    The Warren County facility will build the next-generation Corvette, America’s most advanced series-production sports car.
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    Henkel And ALPLA Partner For $130M Investment In Kentucky

    The partnership's expansion project will enhance laundry detergent production in Bowling Green, KY and is expected to create up to 60 full-time jobs.
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    Logistics & Distribution

    TAZ Trucking Investing $7.3M In Kentucky Expansion

    Just six weeks after the company cut the ribbon on its new Bowling Green facility, TAZ Trucking announced it will add up to 57 new jobs at the location.
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    GM Bowling Green Assembly Plant To Add 400 Jobs

    Preparing for the next-generation Corvette, the Warren County, KY facility will build America's most advanced series-production sports car.
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    Workforce Training & Talent Acquisition

    Today’s workforce training and talent acquisition is a multi-faceted effort that brings targeted skills to students, and new workers to locations they’ll be happy to live in.
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    Automotive

    GM Investing $300M In Michigan Plant For New Chevrolet EV

    The project will add 400 jobs at the Orion Township assembly plant; GM will also invest $1.8 billion in its U.S. manufacturing operations across six states, adding 700 new jobs
    Toyota
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    Toyota Ramps Up U.S. Investment

    By 2021, Toyota will now invest nearly $13 billion in its U.S. operations with plans to add nearly 600 new jobs at American manufacturing plants
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    Aerospace Industry: The Sky’s The Limit

    Commercial aircraft production and military defense spending will directly affect the growth trajectory of the aerospace and defense industry in 2019.
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    MRCOOL Exploring Kentucky Manufacturing Expansion

    The heating, ventilating and air conditioning company is studying the viability of a manufacturing facility in the Kentucky Opportunity Zone that includes the city of Mayfield, KY.
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    U.S. Manufacturing Is Surging

    Bolstered by a robust economy, the United States remains in the top tier of Brookings’ global manufacturing scorecard.
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    Manufacturing

    GE Appliances Plans $200M Investment In Kentucky

    The expansion of the company’s Louisville manufacturing facilities will create 400 new jobs and boost dishwasher and laundry production.
    Plastics & Medical Devices

    Alpla Expanding Bowling Green Plant, Creating 24 Jobs

    The Austrian plastic manufacturer will invest nearly $7 million in a 100,000-square-foot expansion of its Bowling Green warehousing facility. 
    Florence, KY
    Logistics & Distribution

    Kroger Investing $17M In Northern Kentucky Distribution Center

    The food retailer will increase production at the Florence, KY location and create 250 new jobs in the region.
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    Gov. Matt Bevin is bringing his CEO skills to the dealmaking table, and the results are spectacular: an annual record of $9.2 billion in capital investment in the Bluegrass State.
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    March / April 2018 Issue (Volume 51, Number 2)

    The March / April 2018 Issue features the emerging cybersecurity sector, an exclusive interview with Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, plus a look at biopharm, robots, STEM, data centers, and retail.
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    Industry Focus

    Locations For The Automotive Industry: Light Truck Takeover

    While auto sales are expected to decrease in 2018, manufacturers can still bank on the larger market share of SUVs and CUVs to help keep the industry afloat.
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    2017 Economic Development Deal of the Year Honorable Mention Awards

    This year’s competition was chock full of big-ticket projects and locations that pulled out all the stops to land them, so our judges convinced us that 10 of them deserved Honorable Mention Awards.
    Lexington Kentucky
    Automotive

    Tru-Tone Finishing Creating 120 Jobs In Kentucky

    The family-owned company will invest $4.6 million in a new e-coating facility in Lexington, its first in the state.
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    Agriculture

    Industrial Hemp Operation Will Create 271 Jobs In Kentucky

    AgTech Scientific will invest $5 million in a state-of-the-art, 50,000-square-foot hemp-products development and manufacturing facility in Paris, KY.
    Novelis Guthrie, KY
    Automotive

    Novelis Investing $300M In Kentucky Automotive Finishing Plant

    The expansion will create approximately 125 new jobs and accelerate delivery of innovative, lightweight aluminum solutions to growing U.S. market.
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    Kentucky

    Kentucky’s Corporate Investment Hit Record $9.2 Billion In 2017

    More than 17,200 jobs were announced in the Bluegrass State last year, the highest number in 17 years.
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    Foxconn Mega-Project Is Business Facilities’ 2017 Deal Of The Year

    The $10.7-billion LCD panel production facility is expected to bring a bonanza of 13,000 new jobs to Wisconsin.
    Bardstown Kentucky
    Manufacturing

    Takigawa Corp. Japan Establishing First U.S. Operation In Kentucky

    The packaging manufacturer will invest nearly $46 million and create 180 full-time jobs in Bardstown, KY.
    Snapshots

    Snapshots: 60 Seconds With Terry Gill, Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development

    Terry Gill, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, discusses the commonwealth's workforce revolution, distribution and logistics industry, STEM jobs, and Build-Ready Certification program.
    Hawesville Hancock County, KY
    Manufacturing

    WhiteRock Pigments Investing $179M In Kentucky

    The company will create 124 jobs at the former Alcoa building near Hawesville, KY with the help of state tax incentives and workforce programs.
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    Industry Focus

    Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Gets Smarter, Faster

    Smart sensors and digital process controls are poised to exponentially improve the efficiency of U.S. advanced manufacturing.
    Biotech & Pharma

    Life Sciences

    Lexington has leveraged its culture of innovation and commercialization, a superior business climate, top ranked research programs at the University of Kentucky, and an expansion network of medical center to provide an environment where any market niche of the life sciences industry can grow.
    Toyota
    Automotive

    Toyota Investing Over $373M In Five U.S. Plants

    The investment in manufacturing plants in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Missouri will support the company’s first American-made hybrid powertrain and implement Toyota's New Global Architecture at its Alabama plant.
    Danville KY
    Manufacturing

    Denyo Manufacturing Plans $8.7M Kentucky Expansion

    The generator manufacturing plant will add up to 90 jobs at its new sheet metal fabrication facility on its Danville, KY campus.
    Wurtland Kentucky
    Manufacturing

    Wright-Mix Investing $8.5M, Creating 130 Jobs In Kentucky

    The family-owned toll blending and materials development company will make cement-based products, gunite, shotcrete, non-shrink grouts and more at its new operation in Wurtland, KY.
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    Building A Biotech Rebound

    A slow start and a dearth of mergers and acquisitions made 2016 a tough year for biotech, but new gene and immuno-therapies are leading the way for a much stronger performance when 2017 results are in.
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    The Supreme Court says patents don't cover products that are purchased and resold.
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    Logistics & Distribution

    Logistics Leaders

    The logistics and distribution industry is poised for a great leap forward as new technology digitally transforms the supply chain from end to end.
    Greenup County Kentucky
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    Kentucky Shatters All-Time Investment Record

    Less than halfway through 2017, the state has attracted nearly $5.8 billion in corporate investments and is also on pace to create most new jobs since 2006.
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    State Focus

    Kentucky: Air Supremacy In The Bluegrass State

    With Amazon’s decision to put its $1.5-billion hub in Hebron, Kentucky is on the runway to establish itself as the global airfreight logistics leader.
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