The U.S. trucking industry moved 10.23 billion tons of freight in 2020, generating $732.3 billion in revenue, according to the latest edition of American Trucking Associations’ “American Trucking Trends 2021,” released last week. Trucking volume …
With hundreds of TPI Composite workers losing their jobs at year-end, dozens of Central Iowa employers are hoping to fill their own vacancies with skilled workers. More than 130 employers plan to participate in a …
A week after ratifying a new six-year labor contract with its workers following a five-week strike, Deere & Co. this morning reported net income of $1.28 billion for the fourth quarter ended Oct. 31. Fourth-quarter …
KCCI-TV: A massive warehouse development on the edge of Woodward — often rumored to be but never confirmed as Amazon — has been quashed, the town’s mayor announced last week. The warehouse and distribution facility was …
Des Moines Register: Striking Deere & Co. workers will decide this week whether a small tweak to their incentive plans is enough of a change to bring them back to work. Officials with the company and …
Kemin Industries announced it is breaking ground today on a new manufacturing site in southwestern Missouri to produce clean-label ingredients that are used in a variety of applications for the food technologies sector. Located in …
Corridor Business Journal: A Michigan-based metals and plastics manufacturer is planning a $20 million office, warehouse and distribution facility in southwest Cedar Rapids that will bring an estimated 40 new jobs to the market. The new …
Jeff Lorenger, chairman and CEO of HNI Corp., and the management team at the Muscatine-based company will be honored next week with the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business’ Oscar C. Schmidt Iowa Business Leadership …
America is hearing about the international supply chain issues, from getting parts to backlogs at various ports, but the main problem in getting products to their destination domestically is a worsening shortage of truck drivers. …
Des Moines Register: A Deere & Co. executive said Monday that the manufacturer will be able to shift some production to its overseas sites as the 10,100-employee strike affecting plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas continues. …
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