Metals & Related Manufacturing

The Greater Clinton Region offers unique expertise in metals and other manufacturing. East Central Iowa has an established metals industry cluster --one of the strongest in the nation--that includes such diverse areas as fabrication of structural metal manufacturing, metal cutting and machine tool manufacturing, iron manufacturing, steel pipe and tube manufacturing. There are dozens, if not hundreds of other companies producing metals products and supporting the producers. Due to our strength in both metals and support services, we have a trained and ready workforce to meet your labor needs.

Key Regional Advantages for Metals and Related Manufacturing Companies:

• Manufacturing expertise - Our workforce understands manufacturing - this single sector represents 38‰ of regional earnings. We have the talent from production workers and first-line supervisors to engineering, sales and general management to grow your business.
• Iowa work ethic - Ask our existing employers, and they'll tell you the main benefit of being located in East Central Iowa is the highly productive, hard-working labor force.
• Available Labor for jobs in the metals and related manufacturing industry
• Pro-business climate -Iowa is the only Right-to-Work state in the Upper Midwest.
• Workforce training - Eastern Iowa Community College provides training and administers a job training program which can be accessed for new job creation or organizational development.
  Employers who have used the program include: ADM Polymers, Ashford University, Bemis Clysar, Metal Tech Manufacturing, Nestle-Purina, Rock Tenn, and The Swiss Colony
• Electric power - High electricity reliability at low cost. Electric power rates are among the lowest in the nation.
• Incentives - Eastern Iowa has some of the strongest business incentives in the Midwest, including strong jobs training programs.
• Taxes - With extremely competitive rates, Iowa has the lowest unemployment insurance rate of any state in the nation, low workers' compensation rates, and no property tax on M&E or In ventory, and a single-factor non-unitary corporate income tax.
• Low cost of doing business -Iowa ranks as the Second Best State for Cost of Doing Business, according to the Milken Institute Cost of Doing Business Index. Compared to the national average, the cost of doing business in Iowa is just 79.7‰.

Representative Regional Metal Manufacturers

Air Control, Inc.
Collis, Inc.
Drives. LLC.
Metal Tech
TMK IPSCO
The Egging Company