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More changes follow merger of Discovery Communications, Scripps Networks Interactive

May. 9, 2018

Two months into Discovery Communications’ control of Scripps Networks Interactive, executive changes continue — most putting longtime Discovery personnel in charge.

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Uranium Processing Facility progress brings hundreds of jobs to East Tennessee

About 400 skilled craft employees and professional services personnel will join the state’s largest construction project, Y-12 National Security Complex’s Uranium Processing Facility.

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Protomet Corp. ramping up Loudon expansion, hiring

Apr. 27, 2018

Protomet Corp. is on track to keep its hiring promises, and should have its Loudon County plant running just over a year after announcing a major expansion

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Knoxville area businesses receive ‘South’s Best’ awards

Apr. 24, 2018

Southern Living magazine recently announced its “South’s Best Awards” with three East Tennessee businesses placing in multiple categories

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Scapa Tapes North America, LLC To Expand Operations in Knoxville

Adhesive-based products manufacturer and supplier to create more than 85 new jobs

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JDS Technologies, Inc. to Expand in Scott County

Rubber and plastics manufacturer to create approximately 110 new jobs in Winfield

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UT Collaboration Examines How Natural Chemicals in Green Tea Work

Apr. 20, 2018

University of Tennessee System has discovered molecular mechanisms with which key chemicals in green tea work

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DOE opens bids for exascale computers, 1 at ORNL

Department of Energy is accepting proposals worth up to $1.8 billion for the development of at least two new exascale supercomputers

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Tennessee’s huge auto industry: 7 things you may not know

Apr. 13, 2018

Tennessee has emerged as the primary driver behind the Southeast’s fast-growing automotive industry

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$115 million Fort Sanders Region Medical Center expansion announced

Covenant Health announced plans for a $115 million expansion and modernization of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

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