LANSING — The Michigan Strategic Fund has offered Mitchell Plastics a $427,000 Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant to support a new plant in Sterling Heights that will create 122 jobs. The 200,000-square-foot plant represents a total investment of more than $20.5 million. Michigan ranks first in new automotive-related jobs since 2009 with an increase
DETROIT - What economic slowdown? While national surveys show the pace of economic expansion to be flagging a bit, Detroit-area technology executives are on an IT hiring binge. In the latest biannual Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report, 26 percent of CIOs say they plan to add staff to their IT
HOUGHTON — Bees are dying, and Cindy Fiser wants to know why. Now the federal Environmental Protection Agency is helping her look for answers. Fiser, a fourth-year applied ecology and environmental sciences major in Michigan Technological University’s School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, has been named a winner of the EPA’s Greater Research Opportunities
BENTON HARBOR — It’s the oven that can help you be a better cook. Whirlpool Corp. this week announced a partnership with Innit to bring advanced automated cooking and digital recipes to its Jenn-Air brand of Wi-Fi connected ovens. Innit, a California company, is developing technologies that give appliances access to thousands of recipes, based
EAST LANSING — A group of Michigan State University engineering students is among 17 teams taking part in a national drone competition this week in Maryland. The MSU team will be competing in the 2016 Student Unmanned Air Systems event at the Webster Naval Field in Patuxent River. “We are building a fully autonomous UAV
JACKSON - Consumers Energy is making good on a five-year commitment to Michigan businesses, announcing this week that it has spent over $1 billion in less than a year with employers based in the Great Lakes State. “By investing in our home state of Michigan, we are helping businesses grow. That leads to our state
EAST LANSING — Spring Design Day in the Michigan State University College of Engineering is more than 20 percent bigger than last year’s celebration of engineering, design and innovation — which was the largest ever to that point. The end-of- year experience showcasing the innovations of the next generation of engineers and computer scientists takes
DETROIT - Out with the trade show, in with more speakers. That’s the plan for the third annual Techweek Detroit, May 2-8 at various venues around the city. Throughout the week, the conference will host numerous events including interactive workshops, a hackathon, startup pitch competition, networking events and educational speaker panels – all with the
DEARBORN - Last month, under the cover of night, a Ford Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicle with no headlights on navigated along lonely desert roads, performing a task that would be perilous for a human driver. Driving in pitch black at Ford Arizona Proving Ground marks the next step on the company’s journey to delivering
SOUTHFIELD – A new water runoff control system in a parking lot at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield is among the water quality improvement projects that will be showcased at the White House Water Summit Tuesday, March 22. LTU professor Donald Carpenter received word of the project’s inclusion in the Water Summit on Wednesday. “This
