SurePoint Ag Systems - Mon January 29, 2024
SurePoint Ag Systems Announces Plans for New Facility
SurePoint Ag Systems announced plans to build a new office and production facility. This innovative facility will be located on the SurePoint campus four miles north of Atwood, Kan., next to Highway 25....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed January 17, 2024
Shilling Brings Safety to Rural Kansas Highway
For more than a decade, motorists in Kansas drove K-177 like a star running back on their beloved Kansas State Wildcats, weaving around obstacles to record a touchdown. The northern section of this 100-mi.-long state road leading into Manhattan, home to Kansas State University, had no shoulders so a car or truck carrying mammoth farm equipment could drift down an embankment if its wheels slipped off the highway....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Mon November 20, 2023
McCarthy Building Takes On Kansas Wastewater Project
As the area's second-largest funded wastewater project, a $74 million undertaking by the city of Lawrence, Kan., will better serve the community when it's completed by the end of 2026. The mission is to meet discharge standards while improving reliability....
Office of Gov. Laura Kelly - Wed October 25, 2023
Kansas Adds $350M in Projects to IKE Construction Pipeline
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Transportation Secretary Calvin Reed announced seven expansion and modernization highway projects — a total investment of more than $350 million — have been committed to construction as part of the Kelly administration's bipartisan 10-year, $10 billion Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program, also known as IKE....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed September 13, 2023
KDOT's $570M Express Lane Project Aims to Speed Commute
With a continued focus on community input, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is overseeing a $570 million project that will build express toll lanes on U.S. 69 Highway in Overland Park. The mission of 69Express is to help commuters travel to their destinations quickly and safely....
Foley Equipment - Tue August 15, 2023
Foley Equipment Announces Shuttlewagon Dealer Appointment
Foley Equipment Company, headquartered in Wichita, Kan., announced its appointment as the exclusive authorized Shuttlewagon dealer serving Kansas and Missouri effective Aug. 15, 2023. Shuttlewagon, a brand of WABTEC, is a manufacturer of mobile railcar handling solutions....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed June 21, 2023
Bergkamp Builds Highway Across Kansas Prairie
It looked like an easy job. The project called for a 15.5-mi. highway to be built across the flat Kansas prairie where no road had been before. No traffic to contend with. No hills to flatten. No web of utilities and fiber optics to relocate....
Michelin - Tue June 13, 2023
Michelin Announces $100M Investment in Kansas Agriculture Plant
Michelin, a leader in sustainability and innovation, announced its plan to invest more than $100 million into its Junction City, Kan., operations over the next five years to increase production capacity of tracks for agricultural equipment....
Office of Gov. Laura Kelly - Tue March 14, 2023
EMP Shield Plans to Build $1.9B Facility in Burlington, Kansas
Gov. Laura Kelly announced Feb. 20 that EMP Shield, an industry leader in protecting electronic devices from destructive magnetic pulses, plans to invest $1.9 billion in a computer chip manufacturing facility in Burlington, Kan....
AASHTO - Tue January 17, 2023
Kansas Provides Nearly $41M For Local Bridge Projects
Gov. Laura Kelly (D) and Julie Lorenz, the outgoing Kansas Department of Transportation secretary, recently announced the disbursement of $40.5 million through two different state programs to fund 33 local and off-system bridge projects statewide....
