Three new companies recently announced plans to create a total of 145 jobs in Louisville over the next three years.
Trax Mechanical Systems plans to hire up to 110 people, mostly skilled manufacturers, at its 93,000-square-foot facility. The jobs would pay an average of about $35,000 per year. The company plans to make components like axles and suspension systems for trucks, buses and trailers.
Bio Pharma Logistics plans to build a 50,000-square-foot cold storage facility in Riverport where it will warehouse and distribute pharmaceuticals and frozen blood plasma. The company plans to hire 25 and pay an average of about $41,000.
And Liberty Processing and Services Innovation, a new check processing operation, plans to hire 10 after opening an 11,000-square-foot facility near General Electric's Appliance Park. The average pay for those jobs is about $40,000. Read more.
Mike Zong was warming to the prospect of calling Kentucky home as he hit the midpoint of a recent five-day, six-county tour of the Fort Knox area. "It's not ‘small town' at all," said Zong, a database manager who works in a suburb between Baltimore and Washington. "It has almost everything that I have right now."
Grindmaster Corp., a maker of beverage dispensing products such as coffee grinders, plans to add at least 33 jobs. The jobs would pay an average hourly wage of $20, plus benefits.
It strikes thousands of African Americans every year, clogging blood vessels with sickle-shaped cells - causing strokes, blindness and excruciating pain as it damages the heart, liver, lungs and kidneys.
The study results are promising - with two of six patients basically cured and a third one doing well - and it shouldn't be long before new, safe transplants are available to many of the nation's 70,000 sickle cell patients.