Manufacturing
Western Iowa is home to numerous manufacturing companies that market their products nationally and internationally. Among them are some of the world’s leading manufacturers of food products, specialty trucks, athletic equipment, building products, concrete products and more.
Manufacturing companies with operations in the Western Iowa Advantage Region include:
- Accu-Steel, Inc., Audubon — Covered buildings.
- Agri-Drain, Adair — Design, build, and supply products for the water management and soil erosion industry.
- AMANCO, Audubon — Manufacture portable concrete mixing plants.
- American Professional Quilting Systems, Carroll — Manufactures long arm quilting machines.
- BauerBuilt, Paton — Planter frames.
- Bohlmann, Inc., Denison — Concrete products.
- CRT, Greenfield — Subsidiary of Quad Graphics, ink plant.
- Cardinal Glass, Greenfield — Residential glass for windows and doors.
- Carroll Coolers, Carroll — Manufactures walk-in coolers and freezers.
- Chicago Rivet & Machine, Jefferson — Fasteners and assembly equipment.
- Corn Belt Manufacturing, Inc., Early — Builds gravel and agricultural trailers.
- Country Side Carriers, Audubon — Manufacture car carriers.
- EBI/JR Trausch Industries, Audubon — Manufacture refrigeration units.
- Egyptian Burial Vault, Inc., Lake View — Manufacture burial vaults.
- Electrolux, Jefferson — Refrigeration and household products.
- Evapco Iowa, Lake View — World-wide leader in the engineering, manufacturing and supplying of quality refrigeration products for large food and beverage processors.
- Gomaco Trolley Company, Ida Grove — Vintage trolleys, replicars, vintage car reconditioning.
- GOMACO, Inc., Ida Grove — Concrete paving technology.
- Hellers Carbonic West, Galva — Dry ice production.
- Holstein Manufacturing, Inc., Holstein — BBQ grills, trailers.
- Illinois Tool Works, Guthrie Center — Designs and produces an array of highly engineered fasteners and components, equipment and consumable systems.
- Iowa Coolers and Equipment, Arcadia — Manufacture coolers.
- Krudico, Auburn — International distributor of water quality products and municipal water treatment systems.
- Lake View Concrete Products, Lake View — Manufacturer and supplier for construction companies and counties with concrete culverts and various products for road construction.
- Lundell Plastics, Odebolt — Manufactures plastic augers.
- Midwest Industries, Inc., Ida Grove — Trailers, hitches, lakefront systems.
- Owner Revolution, Adair — Plastic products.
- PS Manufacturing, Guthrie Center — Manufacture and market new inventions.
- Pella Corporation, Carroll — Manufactures windows and doors.
- Petersen Manufacturing, Denison — Concrete products and landscape products.
- Plastico Ltd., Manning — Plastic automotive diagnostic parts.
- Quality Machine, Inc., Audubon — Precision production machining of metal parts.
- R. J. Trausch, Adair — Refrigeration units.
- Scranton Manufacturing, Scranton — Manufacturer of refuse equipment including front loaders, rear loaders, satellite bodies, recycling bodies, side loaders and automated side loaders.
- TFT - Goodrich, Carroll — Manufactures aerospace products.
- Terad Fabricating, Willey — Commercial light fixtures.
- ThermalFab, Inc., Denison — Metal fabrication.
- Toyne, Inc., Breda — Manufacturer of apparatus for fire trucks.
- VT Industries, Inc., Holstein — Manufactures doors and components.
- VT Industries, Inc., Sac City — Manufactures pre-molded countertops.
