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LA: Cortec to Build $6M Mfg./Distribution Facility Near Port Allen

LA: Cortec to Build $6M Mfg./Distribution Facility Near Port Allen

Company’s valve manufacturing project will result in 70 new direct and indirect jobs.

UT: Frontier Communications to Open Customer Service Center, Hiring 550

UT: Frontier Communications to Open Customer Service Center, Hiring 550

Business communications co. to invest $7M to open Utah County center focused on its Frontier Secure suite of products, services in 2014.

KS: Stason Pharmaceuticals Locates New Holding Co. in Kansas City

KS: Stason Pharmaceuticals Locates New Holding Co. in Kansas City

Co. moving its brand division from Irvine, CA to Kansas City, KS with a new entity called KC Specialty Therapeutics LLC.

WI: Jagemann Stamping Completes $18.9M, 100-Job Manitowoc Expansion

WI: Jagemann Stamping Completes $18.9M, 100-Job Manitowoc Expansion

The project, announced in April, includes a 50,000-sq.-ft. building addition for the family-owned, full service stamping company.

NC: BOSH Global Services to Expand in Fayetteville, Add Jobs

NC: BOSH Global Services to Expand in Fayetteville, Add Jobs

Co.provides technical and operational services, research, and development related technologies to unmanned vehicles.

OH: Legacy Measurement Solutions Opens New Brookfield Township Facility

OH: Legacy Measurement Solutions Opens New Brookfield Township Facility

As part of a series of manufacturing expansions, co. opening a new 73,000 sq.-ft. facility and creating 150 new jobs.

FL: Bosch, Carrier Form Joint Venture, Locating in Ft. Lauderdale

FL: Bosch, Carrier Form Joint Venture, Locating in Ft. Lauderdale

Will develop, manufacture Bosch- and Carrier-branded water-source heat pumps, which will be built at the current FHP plant in Fort Lauderdale.

TN: Electrolux Begins Production at New $266M Memphis Manufacturing Plant

TN: Electrolux Begins Production at New $266M Memphis Manufacturing Plant

The Memphis plant has hired 500 employees and will eventually employ 1,200 people over the course of the next five years.

MI: Fontijne Formitt Investing $2.6M, Adding 31 Jobs in Milton Township

MI: Fontijne Formitt Investing $2.6M, Adding 31 Jobs in Milton Township

Co. plans to produce a type of tubular component for the exhaust of catalytic converters for gas and diesel engines at expanded Cass County facility.

LA: Libbey to Invest $20M at Shreveport Mfg. Site, Hiring 70

LA: Libbey to Invest $20M at Shreveport Mfg. Site, Hiring 70

New investment will also generate 75 new indirect jobs for a total of over 140 new jobs. Libbey also will retain 511 existing jobs in Shreveport.