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Iowa finds no violations at Tyson plant with deadly outbreak

Associated Press: Iowa regulators say they found no workplace safety violations at Tyson Foods’ largest pork processing plant, which employed several people who died after contracting the coronavirus. The Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration closed …

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Ruan named among Top Green Providers by Food Logistics

Food Logistics, a publication dedicated to covering the movement of products through the global food supply chain, has named Ruan Transportation Management Systems to its Top Green Providers list for 2020. Ruan has received this …

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Hebei-D.M. connection brings American Ground Screw to Iowa

American Ground Screw Inc., a Des Moines-based distributor of a screw system for anchoring foundations, announced that the International Code Council has certified its product for use in the United States. It’s the first company to …

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The Des Moines City Council will consider a resolution Monday that would be the first step toward decriminalizing marijuana in Iowa’s capital city and making enforcement of marijuana possession law enforcement’s lowest priority.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The same plane taken for a vacation to Disney World soon could be reconfigured to hold medical supplies, thanks to a new process by Cedar Rapids-based Collins Aerospace. With the demand for passenger …

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Deere announces new tech-centered operating model

Deere & Co. on Wednesday announced a new vision and operating model aimed at accelerating its integration of smart technology into its products. The new model, which the manufacturer has labeled its Deere Smart Industrial …

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Mid-America Business Index: ‘Manufacturing sector trapped in a recession’

Iowa continued to slump into recession range in May, despite showing signs of slight improvement from April, according to the Mid-America Business Index report from Creighton University, released today.

The index, an economic indicator for …

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Despite new coronavirus outbreaks at its Iowa plants, Tyson resumes attendance policy

Des Moines Register: Tyson Foods is reinstating an attendance policy that punishes workers for missing shifts, even as it reports new COVID-19 outbreaks in its Iowa meatpacking plants. The company is returning to the policy it …

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Employee safety top of mind as companies begin to reopen

As the state transitions into reopening and the economy begins to crawl back from the collapse of COVID-19, leaders of some of Iowa’s largest companies are working to find the balance between resuming normal activity …

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Finding the ‘new normal’ in manufacturing

Many of the components built into a number of name-brand major appliances and vehicles sold across the country are manufactured by West Des Moines-based Engineered Plastic Components Inc. But as production for those appliance companies …

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Stone named president of Deere’s construction equipment division

Deere & Co. announced today that its board of directors has elected John Stone as president of Worldwide Construction & Forestry and Power Systems, effective July 1. Stone, 50, has been senior vice president of Deere’s Intelligent …