Editing Carthage, Missouri (section)

==Economy==
Major area employers include [[Leggett & Platt]], a former Fortune 500<ref>{{cite news |title=Leggett & Platt's Slide on the Fortune 500 |url=https://sbj.net/stories/leggett-platts-slide-on-the-fortune-500,26258 |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=SBJ}}</ref> corporation manufacturing household durables, which is headquartered in the town, H.E. Williams, Inc. (a manufacturer of commercial and industrial lighting fixtures), Otts Foods, [[Schreiber Foods]], and [[Goodman Manufacturing]] (all producing various food products) and the Carthage Underground, formerly a quarry, which now serves as a storage area with climate control for various products. Carthage was well known in the early 20th century for the fine-grained, extremely dense grey limestone, "Carthage Marble", which came from that mine and was used for numerous public buildings throughout the US, including the Capitol Building in [[Jefferson City]] and the Jasper County Courthouse.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Carthage has several food manufacturers and processing plants in and around the city. These plants produce a great deal of [[slaughterhouse waste]]. [[Changing World Technologies]] and its subsidiary Renewable Environment Solutions built the first operational commercial [[Thermal depolymerization|thermal conversion]] plant in the United States to take advantage of the large amount of feedstock for the thermal conversion process made available by the many food rendering plants in the area in 2003.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

In January 2008, a new city-owned hospital, McCune-Brooks, opened and the old facility has been renovated for use by the Carthage Water and Electric Plant. The new [[Carthage Senior High School (Carthage, Missouri)|Carthage High School]] opened in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carthage.k12.mo.us/hs/newhighschool/index.htm |title = Carthage High School |access-date=2010-05-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718023717/http://www.carthage.k12.mo.us/hs/newhighschool/index.htm |archive-date=2011-07-18 }}</ref>

The [[Dyno Nobel]] plant in Carthage is the only facility manufacturing [[dynamite]] in North America.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.dynonobel.com/~/media/Files/Dyno/ResourceHub/Media%20Releases/Alfred%20Nobel%20150%20years.pdf | title = 150 Years of Dynamite | date = 2017-01-25 | website = [[Dyno Nobel]] | access-date = 2022-04-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201030103828/https://www.dynonobel.com/~/media/Files/Dyno/ResourceHub/Media%20Releases/Alfred%20Nobel%20150%20years.pdf | archive-date = 2020-10-30}}</ref>