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Italian ammo box maker coming to US with $16M Kansas City manufacturing facility, 160+ jobs

By Tommy Felts / October 17, 2024

A new 100,000-square-foot facility in Kansas City marks an Italian precision parts manufacturer’s entrance into the North American market — and signals momentum for the region’s advanced manufacturing sector, said Steven Anthony. RB SRL — a maker of a broad range of components for hunting and shooting ammo, along with ammunition containers for the military/defense…

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Design-Zyme, KU researchers latch onto $3M SBIR award for Lyme disease vaccine

By Tommy Felts / October 17, 2024

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro.  [divide] LAWRENCE — Vaccine development at KU Innovation Park could help stop an uptick in Lyme disease in its tracks, using a just-announced $3 million in federal funds to bring…

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Biden-Harris official tours KC BioHub; region prepares to reapply for federal Tech Hubs funding

By Tommy Felts / October 7, 2024

A visit from a top federal economic development leader early this month offered regional leaders an opportunity to showcase and build upon Kansas City’s strategy to increase domestic production of life-saving vaccines within the footprint of the newly established KC BioHub. Maryam Janani-Flores, chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration…

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How tech is making every industry in Kansas search for ‘the next version of themselves’

By Tommy Felts / October 4, 2024

Navigating the path ahead starts with filling state’s workforce with tech innovators who can reshape Kansas to match its wildly disruptive potential, leaders say WICHITA, Kansas — The Sunflower State is seeing the seeds of tech momentum beginning to bloom, but Kansas has a long way to go before its time for harvest, said leaders…

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Goodwill opening first-of-its-kind KC adult high school near Oracle Cerner Innovation Campus

By Tommy Felts / October 2, 2024

A new “adult high school” offering free, onsite childcare to Missourians 21 and older is planned in Kansas City. Organizers are eyeing a fall 2025 opening and a first-year enrollment of 250 students. The project — dubbed The Excel Center — follows a model operated across the country in other communities for the past 10 years,…

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