The Advocate – 2/12/2015 Construction is expected to start in March on River Parishes Community College’s $9.2 million Center for Advanced Technology.  It will be the first project funded through Legislative Act 360, which was passed in 2013 and provides funding of more than $200 million for 28 workforce and technology training projects across the… Read more »

TULSA, Okla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE: WPZ) today announced its expanded Geismar, Louisiana olefins plant has begun manufacturing ethylene for sale. “This is a significant milestone achievement in our effort to restore reliable operations at our plant for the benefit of our customers, employees, contractors and the community,” said John Dearborn, Williams’ senior vice president… Read more »

GEISMAR, LA, January 21, 2015 — BASF will increase its production capacities for the chemical intermediate 1,4-butanediol (BDO) by 10 percent at its site in Geismar, Louisiana, as of 2016. The company will then have a global capacity of BDO of 670,000 metric tons per year. BASF will also examine further measures to strengthen and… Read more »

GONZALES, La., Jan. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Crown Crafts Infant Products, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crown Crafts, Inc. (NASDAQ-CM: CRWS), announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Zutano, a Vermont-based designer of children’s clothing, accessories and nursery products, to develop, market and distribute a new line of infant bedding, blankets, bibs, bath… Read more »

Source: Renita Young; Nola.com – The Baton Rouge Area Chamber named its annual Companies to Watch, honoring second-stage companies, those that have moved beyond the start-up phase into a period of growth, in the nine-parish Baton Rouge area. BRAC’s awards event concluded its Big Think program during Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) on Nov. 19. “The six companies honored… Read more »

November 19, 2014 – Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGI) celebrated Wednesday the grand opening of its Geismar biorefinery, which is now producing renewable hydrocarbon diesel (RHD) in commercial-scale quantities. The event marked the successful start-up of the 75-million gallon nameplate capacity plant that REG acquired in June. Beginning production on October 14, REG Geismar,… Read more »

New project in Ascension, St. Charles parishes to retain 55 jobs, result in more than 85 new direct and indirect jobs, along with 300 construction jobs Article from Louisiana Economic Development 11.6.14 BATON ROUGE, La. — Today, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Executive Vice President Dale Plante of Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. announced the company will… Read more »

GEISMAR, La.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:REGI) announced today that commercial-scale quantities of renewable hydrocarbon diesel (RHD) produced at the company’s Geismar, Louisiana biorefinery are now available for sale. The first truckloads of REG-9000™/RHD produced at the 75-million gallon nameplate biorefinery since REG acquired it in June left the plant October 23. The advanced… Read more »

By Kelly Connelly; Baton Rouge Business Report Published Oct 15, 2014 at 10:26 am (Updated Oct 15, 2014) The winners of the inaugural Best Places to Work awards—presented by Business Report, the Greater Baton Rouge Society for Human Resource Management and the Louisiana Workforce Commission—were revealed and honored at an awards breakfast this morning to… Read more »

September 29, 2014 THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) today announced that it has commenced preliminary engineering to expand production of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) by investment in a new, world scale MDI plant at its Geismar, Louisiana site. The 400,000 metric ton expansion will leverage the significant advantages of the Geismar site,… Read more »