Vol. 1, No. 12Monday, Oct. 26, 2026Northwest Indiana

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Jobs, employers, industry, and tech in Northwest Indiana.

Indiana Harbor peninsula in East Chicago seen from above

Ozinga opens East Chicago slag cement mill, with about 50 union jobs at full run

The Mokena-based concrete company cut the ribbon Oct. 13 on a plant it says will grind 1 million tons a year of cement from steel-mill slag, shipping by rail, barge and truck.

Interstate approach near the I-65 corridor in Northwest Indiana

Amazon’s third million-square-foot I-65 box rises on Crown Point’s 101st Ave.

The Times reports construction on a new Amazon warehouse south of the Mississippi Street facility — the corridor’s third shed over 1 million square feet. Crown Point’s Plan Commission also put Venture Park 65’s secondary plat and site plan on its October calendar.

The Cleveland-Cliffs hot-briquetted iron plant in Toledo, Ohio, photographed in January 2021

Trump touts $15 billion Iowa steel complex as the largest in U.S. history

Mesabi Metallics would employ 1,750 workers making up to 7.5 million tons of steel a year in Lee County — if it can close financing and win final state approval.

A lab worker at a hospital in Jos, Nigeria, looks through a microscope; file photo

GSK puts more than $800 million into Pennsylvania biopharma hub, adding 300 jobs

The British drugmaker will expand Upper Merion into a combined manufacturing, research and testing site, with construction planned to start in 2027.

TSMC Fab 14B in Tainan, at the Southern Taiwan Science Park, photographed on May 27, 2025

TSMC posts record $46.7 billion quarter as AI chip demand keeps climbing

Third-quarter revenue rose 50 percent from a year earlier and beat analyst forecasts, with full earnings and guidance due Oct. 15.

Google's data center building in The Dalles, Oregon, photographed in 2020

Indiana's data center fight reaches the rate case, with bills first and answers later

Regulators will reconsider a $71 million AES Indiana rate hike over the Google Monrovia data center and a BlackRock buyout — but customers pay the higher rates first, and answers come later.