The skinny The Woodlands-based Apergy Corp. (NYSE: APY), which spun off of an Illinois-based company last year, will merge with the upstream energy business of Sugar Land-based Nalco Champion, a division of Minnesota-based Ecolab Inc. (NYSE: ECL) created in 2013. The details The deal is expected to be complete by the end of the second quarter of 2020. […]
GALVESTON The number of programs aimed at encouraging young people to enter the maritime industry is surging as area leaders attempt to reverse a deepening shortage of skilled workers. Facing an aging workforce, maritime industry leaders are struggling to find skilled workers to fill vacant positions. It’s a challenge that many community leaders have chosen […]
Local maritime industry leaders and educators are working to encourage more young people to take jobs — requiring everything from long stints at sea to repairing ships — to ease a shortage of workers qualified for those jobs. The industry has been facing a shortfall and an aging workforce, but filling those jobs and encouraging […]