Big-Name Companies Make City Manufacturing Mainstay
See the companies the made Fort Smith a manufacturing hub. read more >
See the companies the made Fort Smith a manufacturing hub. read more >
The new hires are Chris Brudos and Will Mangrum. read more >
The company will be consolidating three existing warehouses into the new facility, which will provide space for Hytrol's panel shop and non-manufacturing work. read more >
A few themes emerged at the 34th Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. read more >
Ryan Younger has been named a managing member at Quattlebaum Grooms & Tull in Little Rock. read more >
Steve Dunlevy has been hired as vice president of manufacturing operations by Hytrol Conveyor Co. Inc. in Jonesboro. read more >
Mars Petcare of Franklin, Tennessee, says it will expand its operation in Fort Smith, investing $145 million and adding 120 jobs. read more >
Hytrol Conveyor Co. Inc. of Jonesboro says it will establish a new factory in an existing 300,000-SF facility on Jenny Lind Road in Fort Smith. read more >
Women must support other women in their professional march forward, four panelists agreed during the Jonesboro Women’s Leadership Symposium, an online event hosted by Arkansas Business. read more >
Four companies have partnered with Arkansas State University to help their employees who want to earn credit hours toward a degree. read more >
Arkansas State University and Hytrol Conveyor Co. Inc. have unveiled an on-campus, materials handling lab complete with the type of working conveyor that Hytrol makes. read more >
Carolina Cruz-Neira with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock was in Chicago a week ago and in Atlanta last month to showcase her team’s CAVE-in-a-Box. read more >
In Arkansas, where the May unemployment rate was a record-setting low of 3.4 percent, manufacturers aren’t concerned about robots taking jobs. They’re concerned about competing in a global marketplace. read more >
Smack in the middle of a business surge driven by the e-commerce revolution sits Jonesboro and northeast Arkansas, the little-known conveyor capital of the United States. read more >
Two of northeast Arkansas’ conveyor manufacturers have deep roots in the region’s farming tradition, going back a half-century and more. read more >
