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CMC held its official ribbon cutting for its new micro mill in Mesa, Arizona on October 25. Participating in the ribbon cutting from L to R: Rob McClean, CMC Divisional VP West; Gilbert Hutton, CMC Director of Mill Operations West; Dr. Coral Evans, Northern Arizona Director from the office of U.S. Senator Mark Kelly; Allison Grigg, SVP of Business Development with the Arizona Commerce Authority; John Giles, the Mayor of Mesa; Peter Matt, CMC President and CEO; Carlos Contreras, Cabinet Executive Officer of Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity, and Scott Somers, Mesa Councilmember District 6. [Photo: CMC]
Irving’s CMC Cuts Ribbon on ‘One of World’s Most Environmentally Friendly’ Micro Steel Mills in Arizona
by David Seeley | Oct 27, 2023
The facility will be "the first in the world to produce rebar as well as merchant bar quality products through a continuous production process from melting, casting, and rolling activities," CMC said.
by Quincy Preston |
Oct 27, 2023
Dallas business leader Arun Agarwal's executive eye and passion for parks has driven strategic green space projects spurring growth and community. Milestones under his Dallas Park and Recreation Board leadership include Harwood Park, Parkdale Lake Park, Southern Gateway Park, the Cedar Crest Preserve land donation, and more.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 26, 2023
Dallas billionaire Clark Hunt, owner of the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, sat down with Anurag Jain at the Venture Dallas Summit on Wednesday. Hunt—the chairman and CEO of both the Chiefs and FC Dallas—was the headliner for the first event at the annual summit for innovators and investors at the Bush Center.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 26, 2023
Produced by Live Nation in partnership with Chef Tim Love and Larry Joe Taylor, the festival & conference's inaugural event earlier this year drew more than 3,500 attendees from more than 25 U.S. states to shows and panel discussions at 10 participating music venues in the Fort Worth Stockyards. The 2024 event will be held February 28 through March 2.
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Revolution Gets FDA Nod for Up to 100% Recycled Stretch Plastic Food Packaging Material
by Lance Murray | Oct 26, 2023
Revolution—which is based in Little Rock with corporate offices in Flower Mound and a manufacturing facility in Mesquite—says the introduction of clear food grade LLDPE PCR "will boost innovations in recycled packaging."
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by David Seeley |
Oct 26, 2023
Irving-based Fluor and Altris AB will work to advance a next-gen alternative to lithium-ion batteries, which contain toxic metals and require complex recycling. By contrast, sodium-ion batteries are safer and made mostly of salt, wood, iron, and air. Another big plus: Sodium is 500 times more abundant than lithium.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 25, 2023
You may have seen Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope's curtain walls—huge walls of glass for building exteriors—locally because they've been installed at The Star in Frisco. And come Friday night, people everywhere will be seeing OBE's curtain walls at Globe Life Field in Arlington during Game 1 of the World Series.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 25, 2023
The five transactions were in various healthcare verticals, VERTESS said, noting that "the headwinds faced earlier in the year because of global and domestic economic pressures are clearing and signs for a profitable Q4 and 2024 are strong."
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Unlocking Innovation: A Guide to Outsourcing Expert Technology Teams for North Texas Innovators
by Inclusion Cloud | Oct 25, 2023
As technology evolves at lightning speed, outsourcing has become an indispensable strategy for businesses seeking to harness expertise, optimize costs, and propel innovation. Here are more than a dozen actionable insights—and tips for a successful partnership.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2023
An Uber Eats driver was involved in a car crash in Southlake recently, and the city's police and fire departments went to the scene. The driver turned out to be OK, but was unable to finish delivering an order of fresh-grilled hibachi from Hashi Japanese Kitchen. That's when Corporal Tejada and Officer Grace stepped up to finish the job for the gig worker—and in a sense, gig workers everywhere.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2023
OK, it may not be as big—or as fire-breathing—as the dragons that swooped over Westeros on "Game of Thrones." But Australia's Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon is every bit as magical for simply hanging in there, decades after many thought it was extinct. Now Texas-based Colossal Biosciences is partnering to help preserve it—and sequence its genome.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2023
Thirty-five years after developing Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport and after decades of booming economic impact at AllianceTexas, Dallas-based Hillwood is making its first-ever play in the Panther City's downtown district.
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The Last Word: UTA’s Michael Bozlar on Tapping New Sources of Rare Earth Metals
by David Seeley | Oct 24, 2023
Rare earth metals power our tech-driven world, from smartphones to satellites. But with just a handful of countries controlling the global spigot, supplies of these critical elements are vulnerable to disruption. The UT Arlington team of chemists, engineers, and materials scientists aim to conduct research that will "improve U.S. competitiveness in the production of rare earth metals."
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 24, 2023
Irving-based Caris said that via this multiyear agreement, Moderna will leverage Caris’ extensive library of de-identified, multimodal data solutions derived from whole exome sequencing, whole transcriptome sequencing, and protein analyses—along with claims data to improve development strategies for Moderna’s oncology pipeline.
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Oct 24, 2023
On Monday, the Biden administration unveiled 31 U.S. Tech Hubs in the U.S., including the SMU-led Texoma Semiconductor Hub. Here's a deep dive into how Dallas landed its second federal tech hub in two months, who's involved, and what it could mean for the region.
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Patented: Adobe’s ‘Depicting Humans in Text-Defined Outfits’ and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 24, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 10, 2023: Patents granted include: Adobe's depicting humans in text-defined outfits, Bank of America's threat detection within information systems, Capital One's purchase recommendations based on responses to inquiries on product attributes, EllansaLabs' systems for authentication and related devices and methods, FeverTags' livestock health monitoring system and method of use, Illuma Labs' speaker authentication and identification, Linear Labs' multi-tunnel electric motor/generator, and Toyota's method for detecting objects left behind by using heated resistive filament in a vehicle.
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