Business leaders: New trade deal good for Texas. #USMCA https://t.co/uyOuxR5O1B

Consumer packaged goods company Verus International has announced that it is opening its first #Manufacturing facility in Texas to support future growth. https://t.co/6LzERPtgRt

Lockheed Martin expects Grand Prairie-based division to lead growth in 2020, CFO says. #manufacturing https://t.co/UV8omVHdza

Always a pleasure to talk about business expansion in #DFW https://t.co/aKmktVDUv7

Small manufacturers made up 28 percent of total #manufacturing sales in the Houston region last year, according to a survey by the Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research, https://t.co/O6nIa2SfOP

Thank you @DanPatrick for highlighting the importance of getting #USMCA approved by Congress! The USMCA would enhance our position of economic strength in North America and the global market. #TxLifeScience https://t.co/4rEzPOhEAA

Aircraft maker Mooney is back in business in Kerrville. https://t.co/Z2Jxo1ei5f

The new Gene Therapy Innovation Center on the existing FDB campus in Texas will be about 60,000 square feet and operational starting in fall 2021. FDB expects the center to triple its gene therapy development capabilities and add about 100 jobs. https://t.co/XvjBIynZua

Training for future oil refinery processors and instrumentalists took a leap toward the real world at Lamar State College Port Arthur in a move that the school hopes will give a competitive edge to both its students and its programs. https://t.co/yBxhJjg03l

The summit featured a special presentation by the relatively new East Texas #Manufacturing Alliance (ETMA). The group provides training and recruitment opportunities to small-to-large manufacturers across a 12-county region. @SenatorNichols https://t.co/Cv6V2lmHyw

Great News in East Texas! New #manufacturing company expected to bring 150 jobs to East Texas: The facility is more than 3,000 square feet and promises to deliver protection mats to more than 300 industrial products around the world. Senator Robert Nichols State Representative Trent Ashby Lufkin/Angelina County Chamber of Commerce

In the new #manufacturing and logistics program, students can receive production technician and Occupational and Safety and Health Administration certifications that will have them ready to step out of their cap and gown and directly into a career.

"Several years ago we would have thought that there would have never been another plant built and here we are now," said Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames. Ames sees the expansion as an economic benefit for Southeast Texas. #manufacturing

General Motors UAW-talks to end strike sow confusion, frustration.

The Texas Workforce Commission awards a $107,705 Skills Development Fund grant to a Brownsville company in the #manufacturing sector. Rio Grande Valley Partnership

Great news in Kyle, Texas! The new #manufacturing lab is expected to create 850 new jobs. Kyle city leaders called it the biggest economic development project the city’s ever landed. “This is not going to be a distribution center with 50 minimum wage jobs, said Kyle Mayor Travis Mitchell. “This is going to be a massive capital improvement, heavy, high wage job-type facility.”

Texas stands out as the nation’s leader for logistics. For the 17th year in a row, Texas topped the nation as the number one exporting state.

Texas' #manufacturing sector continued to grow last month, according to business executives surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, but at a slower pace than in August.

NASA reveals small business partnerships for Moon, Mars technologies: 14 American companies to split $42.3 million to enable Moon to Mars exploration.