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Union Tank Car Co. is locating its new $100 million, 850-employee railcar plant on the site of the former England Air Force Base with the help of a $65.2 million incentive package.
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Shintech Louisiana LLC, the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Tokyo-based ShinEtsu Chemical Company, announced a $1 billion PVC plant on a 1,725-acre complex in lberyille Parish.
SHREVEPORT...
Steelscape, a subsidiary of Kalama, Wash.-based Grupo IMSA, a multinational metal processing company, will establish a $200 million, 200,000-square-foot facility at the Port of Shreveport-Bossier, with a work force of 240 people dedicated to the production of metallic-coated and pre-painted steel coils primarily for the construction and OEM markets in the U.S. and Canada.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina arrived in Louisiana, roaring into the history books as the costliest hurricane in United States history and the deadliest since 1928. A majority of New Orleans was flooded after levees separating Lake Pontchartrain from the city breached under the pressure of the storm's ravages. Less...