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Steel Yourself for this Big Ticket Item
German steelmaking giant ThyssenKrupp, which rocked Alabama with construction of a $5 billion plant near the Mobile-Washington county line, announced in...
Budgeting Without Revenue
Call it sensible and austere or say it spills blood on the hands of Alabama’s Legislature, but don’t look for any new...
Alabama Development Office Rebranded
Ignoring that old adage, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, ” the state has changed the name of its renowned...
One Big Fish
John Nichols, of Samantha, didn’t hook just any old fish on his outing to Holt Reservoir in March. The cat on...
Auburn Legos Model Toyota Production
Just-in-time delivery, carefully coordinated production lines, Toyota-style lean manufacturing and an eagle eye to safety make the automotive engineering lab at...
From Rail Cars to Garbage Trucks
The enormous plant built to make railcars in the Shoals has been redeployed by Navistar to make a designed-from-scratch garbage hauler dubbed the...
HB56 Back in the Shop
While lawmakers try to repair the state’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law and fend off challenges from federal court rulings, the controversy continues to...
BA—“It’s All Here”
Business Alabama, now in it’s 26th year of publication, introduces this month a new design for the cover, including a...
Two More for $691 Million
Mobile’s Austal USA got the go-ahead for construction of two more littoral combat ships, the third and fourth under its 10-ship contract...
FBI, UAB Students Snare Hackers
It’s a tale of intrigue that reads like a high-tech spy movie, the way NBC News tells it. Eastern European crooks tap...