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.
A Coralville company that produces an energy-efficient chiller and condenser tube-cleaning system has secured two international deals in Qatar and United Arab Emirates. The deals took years to work out with the major international energy companies.
Across the country, when farmworkers arrive at employer-provided housing, they often face similar problems of dead smoke alarms, moldy rooms and empty first aid kits, according to Investigate Midwest’s review of more than 6,600 inspections of H-2A housing and migrant labor camps from 19 states.
Spencer Olmstead started Magic Detail & Wash two years ago in Marion
In Iowa, there were nearly 13,000 fraud reports in 2023 that resulted in financial losses of $42.6 million.
A rural Nebraska county delivered a blow this week to plans by Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions to build a pipeline carrying carbon dioxide across the state.
The project, which would require around $500,000 upfront, would congregate hordes of drought-related data for residents to easily access.
Iowa’s largest credit union lost $73 million in the last quarter of 2023 due to loan defaults and a fast rise in interest rates, officials said.
The widespread adoption of remote work prompted by COVID-19 persists in the Cedar Rapids metro and continues to disrupt the office market, while industrial activity levels off and multifamily development still sees high demand, according to GLD Commercial’s annual real estate report.
The Labor Department asked a federal judge for an injunction to halt the employment of minors by Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial Service LLC, saying it believes at least four children were still working at one Iowa slaughterhouse — Seaboard Triumph Foods — as of Dec. 12.
Drivers in eight Midwestern states will be able to fuel up with a higher blend of ethanol throughout the year under a final rule announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers, according to data from Downdetector.
Daily News, Sports, and Opinion
Delivered to your inbox every day
© 2025 The Gazette | All Rights Reserved.
Daily Newsletters