Business News

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

Police found two male victims who had fallen about 20 feet from a portable scaffold at Farmtek.

Union workers voted to ratify a four-year contract with multinational ingredients maker Ingredion, ending a strike that has stretched on for nearly six months against the company’s Cedar Rapids facility.

Established local artists leave outdoor circuit to take work indoors

The Sierra Club of Iowa and Trout Unlimited are asking a judge in Polk County District Court to overturn an April 2021 by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to approve Supreme Beef’s plan for storing and disposing of manure.

International Paper’s proposed expansion of its Cedar River Mill facility was awarded $1.2 million in state tax incentives Friday, supporting the development of a more sustainable structure that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 22 percent in the coming years.

Traditionally, decommissioned turbine blades have been sent to landfills. But in recent years, recycling the often hundred-plus-foot-long blades has become a new, more sustainable disposal method among companies in Iowa and the Midwest.

The Rodale Institute Midwest Organic Center, established in 2019, is a small but mighty team working to reduce chemicals used in food production.