How Baton Rouge area industry leaders feel about the future
The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance’s newly released Q3 economic outlook survey shows that the association’s members expect capital spending, hiring and production to increase, though...
EV battery component manufacturing poised to be Louisiana’s next big industry
It’s not likely that Louisiana’s fledgling electric vehicle battery industry would even exist without federal assistance, but state economic leaders really don’t care.
As Baton...
Where the Capital Region industrial real estate market currently stands
It is a great time to be an industrial real estate landlord in the Capital Region, according to Evan Scroggs with Lee and Associates...
BASF stays the course despite flat earnings
BASF backed its full-year outlook despite posting flat second-quarter earnings after cost-saving measures offset a decline in sales due to lower prices across all...
New $13.1 million Southland Industrial Coatings facility to serve renewable energy, utility industries
Southland Industrial Coatings announced it is investing $13.1 million to construct a new fireproofing facility in St. Landry Parish to serve customers in the...
Premier Concrete invests $10M in its Livingston Parish facility
Premier Concrete Products Inc. will invest up to $10 million to add a precast concrete pipe production unit at its manufacturing facility in Livingston...
Ford cuts back on EV plans to meet Super Duty truck demand
Ford Motor will expand production of its large Super Duty trucks to a plant in Canada that was previously set to be converted into...
CF Industries’ Donaldsonville plant plays role in first ship-to-ship ammonia transfer
Trafigura Group has completed its first ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of ammonia using approximately 6,000 metric tons of the product from CF Industries' Donaldsonville manufacturing...
Environmental advocates push DEQ not to renew Formosa project’s air permit
Environmental law advocates have asked the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality not to renew the air permits for a planned Formosa plastics manufacturing facility...
Why Baton Rouge’s industrial real estate market remains gridlocked
The Baton Rouge industrial real estate market continues to find itself in a state of “gridlock and stagnation” even as the national market appears...
