The Grand Rapids-based company, which already reclaims iron ore from mining waste at plants in Keewatin and Taconite in northern Minnesota, will invest an estimated $120 million in the new plants, each of which will reportedly employ about 120.
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The federal grant will enable university researchers to develop membrane technology that can speed up filtration processes in manufacturing and make them more energy efficient.
Lydell Capritta, who became the digital agency’s new president in October, shortly after one of its co-founders left, has a track record of landing and managing large-budget and big-name clients.
Can a local company turn a Breathalyzer into an entertaining saloon pastime?
The online game is aimed at educating players about the trials faced by school children living in poverty.
The Bloomington-based glass products maker, which has increased its sales and revenue despite a slow-growth commercial real estate market, has seen its stock price more than double during the past year.
A Twin Cities entrepreneur develops a new approach
to East African development.
Separately, the company also opened its first office in Turkey last week.
The Minneapolis-based company said that the newly formed credit union will have about $500 million in assets; current Thrivent Financial Bank clients will become member-owners of the credit union.
An investor group said that 88 percent of votes cast in a proxy battle favored replacing Aetrium’s board; the company says the vote was moot, because fewer than 50 percent of shareholders took part in a shareholder meeting.
Local home prices rose 8.8 percent between September 2011 and September 2012; among 20 major metro areas measured, only Phoenix posted a more significant year-over-year gain.
A Target-themed caravan will make stops in close to two-dozen cities across the country within the first two weeks of December; at each stop, Target will offer events that are open to the public.
Branding agency Fame expands its menu of services and puts one fork in the food game.
Evolve Systems is selling the next level of e-payment services.
The Minnetonka-based health insurer said that it expects to earn $5.25 to $5.50 per share in 2013, less than the $5.58 per share that analysts have predicted.
Among universities that earned more than $2 million in royalties in 2009, the University of Minnesota reportedly saw the biggest drop during the subsequent two years.