Hytrol Conveyor, Inc., headquartered in Jonesboro, will expand their product line in Fort Smith, adding 100 manufacturing jobs to the area. Hytrol designs and supplies customers with conveyor systems, ...

JONESBORO -- Hytrol saw 30% annual growth from 2020 to 2022, supplying the conveyors e-commerce companies needed during their pandemic boom as customers shopped online.

Hytrol, which bills itself as the largest conveyor manufacturer in the nation, turns out products in a 700,000-square-foot facility in Jonesboro and also has a 48,000-square-foot research and ...