Hancock County Development Commission

Stennis Space Center, Miss. (January 9, 2012) - Today, Governor Barbour announced that Rolls-Royce North America is adding a second jet engine test stand at the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Miss. The project represents a company investment of at least $50 million and will create... more »

DECEMBER 21, 2011, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi - Today the Hancock County Development Commission approved a long term lease for Freeman Holdings of Mississippi, LLC, to operate a full service FBO (fixed base operation) at Stennis International Airport. Freeman Holdings will operate at Stennis under the Million Air franchise. ... more »

Bay Saint Louis, Ms - According to Time Magazine , since 2001, more than 100 tunnels on the Mexican border have been discovered by U.S. law enforcement, compared with just 15 in the 1990s, and the pace is accelerating. But now there is new technology that promises to locate drug... more »

HANCOCK COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - PSL North America is a steel pipe manufacturer. It started production seven months ago. Now, the first load of pipe is on its way to the company's first customer. CEO of PSL North America Brian Vaill said, "We had 11 rail cars, consisting of... more »

Hancock County's first industrial tenant to locate after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was spotlighted by Mississippi native Robin Roberts in a May 7, 2009 Good Morning America segment about how the Mississippi Gulf Coast is thriving despite the national economy and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Video: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7525789 more »

A non-traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony was held recently in the Port Bienville Industrial Park for MAC LLC's new lightweight ammunition manufacturing facility in Hancock County; gunshots rang out in celebration of the company's new venture in south Mississippi. Once fully operational, the plant is expected to create 50 new technology and... more »

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. - MAC LLC may be a young company, but it's already part of a select group of some two dozen contractors nationwide working on technologies the Department of Defense considers critical for national security. In this case, it's lightweight, small-caliber ammunition that will not only... more »

KILN, Miss. - The $1.2 million expansion of the technology center at Stennis International Airport will allow a tenant to begin producing in Mississippi later this year a new generation of highly advanced lidar systems. The expansion adds two wings to the airport's Stennis Technology Center. One will provide Optech... more »

Tucked away on the back roads of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the state's first brewery is operating at full steam. The Lazy Magnolia Brewery has made it onto the beer map as a market contender, not to mention they are second only to FEB Distributing's anchor brands (Miller/Coors) in sales.... more »

PSL North America (PSL-NA), the first major manufacturing project to announce its location to the Port of Bienville Industrial Park following Hurricane Katrina, recently received its first barge of steel coil to begin pipe manufacturing. Nearly all of PSL-NA's first-year production has been purchased for an end-user constructing a 450-mile... more »