HOLLAND - Koops, a manufacturer of custom automation equipment, plans to invest $4.9 million into a new 40,000-square-foot facility adjacent to its headquarters in Holland. The expansion includes plans to add 60 new jobs and additional machinery as part of the expansion project, according to a statement published by MIBiz.Com. Koops, which provides automation equipment
LANSING - One mid-Michigan entrepreneur wants to fill a need in the rapidly growing market for unmanned aerial vehicles by catering his products to educators and students. Mario Swaidan, a recent graduate of Michigan State University’s neuroscience program and owner of Lansing-based AerBots Inc., plans to market quadcopter drone kits, so named because they are
GRAND RAPIDS - After driving the West Michigan economy for several years, the manufacturing sector has reached a holding pattern of flat growth that has economists on the lookout for the next downturn in the business cycle. In general, economists in the region note that weaker-than-expected sales of passenger vehicles in the automotive industry have
PORT SHELDON - A biotech startup will use $1 million in capital to pay for preclinical trials on an innovation it has developed for use in orthopedic surgeries. Magnesium Development Co. LLC, operating out of a small office in Ottawa County’s Port Sheldon Township, uses an alloy material licensed from a Livonia company, Nano Mag LLC,
GAINES TOWNSHIP - Switch Communications Group LLC has selected Lansing-based The Christman Co. to serve as the general contractor for the company’s data center project at the former Steelcase pyramid building, MiBiz reported Monday. The Las Vegas-based operator of co-located cloud-based data centers plans to invest up to $5 billion into the West Michigan facility,
