Specialty cement manufacturer Calucem will enter the U.S. market by developing a $35 million manufacturing facility in eastern New Orleans. Calucem, a subsidiary of Spain-based Cementos Molins, is the world’s second-largest producer of calcium aluminate cement, a high-performance product popular…
Business leaders from around the Greater New Orleans region visited the Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island to learn details and best practices in offshore wind development that can be used in South Louisiana. The GNO, Inc. staff toured…
More than 30 years have passed since Pyramid Audio put on its first live production, but even after that much time, the company remains an industry leader in sound and video innovation. Pyramid’s meticulously designed experiences are poised on the…
When Neel Sus started Susco in 2006, he was a man with a simple mission: he wanted to make a positive impact on the end-users of new software development. Sus had fallen in love with the development process while working…
The more things change, the more they stay the same.” This concept, articulated by 19th century French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, was illustrated in real time on Twitter in early August, when The Nieux Society – a collection of New…
I t might be strange to think about, but everything you know–about yourself, about others and about the world around you–is perceived, processed and controlled by a roughly three-pound cluster of cells that sits inside your head. The human brain–the…
What’s your major? Liyah Ernest used to fear that question. Even though she’s a brilliant and confident student—she took advanced physics her freshman year of high school and was accepted into Stanford University with a full scholarship—she still wasn’t sure…
Greater New Orleans, Inc. (GNO, Inc.) is the economic development nonprofit for the 10-parish region of southeast Louisiana. GNO, Inc. is built on a simple but broad mission: To create a region with a thriving economy and excellent quality of…
Welcome to the Q3 issue of REGION Magazine! Greater New Orleans has never looked so promising for young people seeking a high-wage, high-demand career. It is a great time to be a job seeker. But the flip-side is that businesses…
