With the U.S. Army switching its primary small-arms round to a different bullet — and awarding the work to the Independence plant — it will require a hiring spree to fill as many as 320 jobs and allow the facility to maintain its current workforce of 1,600. "We're making sure Lake City is here for another 80 years," one official said.Cover Story: Lake City’s new bullet will mean more jobs, continued stability for Independence plant
With the U.S. Army switching its primary small-arms round to a different bullet — and awarding the work to the Independence plant — it will require a hiring spree to fill as many as 320 jobs and allow the facility to maintain its current workforce of 1,600. "We're making sure Lake City is here for another 80 years," one official said.
CEO Josh Rowland expects the bank's new owner — led by a fintech billionaire — to continue its upward trajectory and create new opportunities. But he feels a tinge of sentimentality about selling the bank he and his family helped resuscitate and build into a big market player.
Overland Park-based Compass Minerals plans to bring its lithium production operation online in 2025, when demand for electric vehicle batteries will be increasing exponentially.
Lenexa-based Airshare opened its own hangar at Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, the company's first dedicated hangar in Kansas City.
Kansas City aviation executive Farhad Azima claims a United Arab Emirates sheikh ordered his computers to be hacked. In his effort to prove it, he won a motion compelling discovery from the sheikh's attorney.