Chinese company picks Grand Forks for manufacturing plant

[turbinetree]

an hour ago

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A Chinese company has chosen Grand Forks as the site of a manufacturing facility that city officials said Saturday could be the largest private sector investment in the community’s history.

Fufeng Group Ltd. picked an approximately 370 acre (150 hectare) site in Grand Forks’ agri-business park. The facility is expected to initially require 25 million bushels of corn annually, the city’s announcement said,

The announcement did not give the size of the investment or specify which products will be made there. Fufeng makes products for the animal nutrition, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, health and wellness, oil and gas, and other industries. It’s a leading producer of xanthan gum. This will be its first U.S.-based manufacturing facility, the city said.

https://apnews.com/article/business-north-dakota-grand-forks-fufeng-group-ltd-0c56dbdae6f35b999674b78410463562

[bikernks]

1. Of All the Gin Joints in All the World...

and they picked the one right next door to the 69th Reconnaissance Group of the Air Combat Command, who happens to fly the RQ-4 Global Hawk drones. What are the odds?!

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. There's an old saying....

That the Russians (and by association, the Chinese) get more military intel from one issue of “Aviation Week & Space Technology” magazine than we get out of them in a year.

I wouldn’t read too much into this news.