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With New Name, Keokuk Set to Resume Production Keokuk Steel Castings (Keokuk,
Iowa) is set to resume production. T e new owners, Brad and An-
nie Mills, closed the purchase of the dormant facility Nov. 30 and are looking to resume production in 2017. In July, the Iowa Economic Develop- ment Authority Board gave the Mills an incentive package worth over $1.6 million, while Keokuk pitched in with a $200,000 forgivable loan. T e Mills Group is investing $6
million into the facility, and 200 jobs are expected to return. Matrix Metals, the plant’s former
owners, announced in December 2015 it would be shuttering the facility, which is now called Keokuk Mills. “Manufacturing jobs have been leaving this country for quite some time,” Lee County Supervisor Gary
Keokuk Steel Castings (Keokuk, Iowa) is set to resume production and is now called Keokuk Mills.
Fulluo said to the Des Moines Regis- ter. “It’s always nice when you can turn a facility around.” KSC sent its last casting March 31. “Our fi rst objective is to get the
(facility) back up and running and reach out to the KSC customers,” Mills said in a news release when the purchase was fi rst announced. “A little further down the road, we have additional plans for Keokuk. We see the possibility of utilizing Keokuk as an expansion option for our other companies. We also see growing this location through additional acquisitions as we have done in Earlville.” T e Mills Group owns four Iowa
companies involved in the steel manufacturing of livestock handling equipment.
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