Fort Dodge Messenger - About 600 construction workers are entering the final stages of assembling the $320 million CJ Bio America plant west of Fort Dodge.
The process of starting up the lysine production facility is to begin in October, according to J.T. Nam, the company’s president.
In a temporary office building in the shadow of the developing plant, Nam and other company leaders met Tuesday with state Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs; state Sen. Daryl Beall, D-Fort Dodge; and Dan Kinney, the president of Iowa Central Community College. Training the employees who will operate the plant was a main theme of their morning meeting.