What’s the outlook for Iowa’s manufacturers as the economy recovers from the global pandemic, and what new challenges lie ahead? A panel of industry leaders and economists at the Business Record’s Made in Iowa: Manufacturing Forecast event examined the latest trends and provided their forecast for the state of Iowa’s manufacturing industry for the remainder of 2021 and into 2022. Rewatch the full event here

Panelists included:

Yarelis Hernandez – site manager, Clinton Complex, Clinton, Iowa, for LyondellBasell Industries, a multinational chemical company and the world’s largest licensor of polyethylene and polypropylene technologies.

Gül Kremer – Wilkinson Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Iowa State University

Hank Norem – president and CEO, Ramco Innovations, an industrial equipment supplier based in West Des Moines, and co-chair of the Iowa Innovation Council’s Advanced Manufacturing Work Group.

Carl Vieregger – associate professor, Drake University