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In 2002, a manufacturing facility in Blair, Nebraska began operations. It is the world's first and largest PLA facility and it supplies NatureWorks' Ingeo biopolymer. The Blair facility slated to increase its Ingeo nameplate capacity to 150,000 metric tons in the first quarter of 2013. [2]
Blair is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Nebraska, United States. [3] The population was 7,990 at the 2010 census . Blair is a part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Mick Mines (born 1950) was a Nebraska (United States) state senator from Blair, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature from 2003 until his resignation in 2007. He is currently a lobbyist . Personal life
Cargill began operations in Dodge City in 1979 and its plant eventually reached a capacity of slaughtering and processing 6,000 cattle per day. [8] National Beef also owns and operates a slaughterhouse and beef packing plant in Liberal with a capacity of processing 6,000 cattle per day [9] and employing about 3,500 people.
Cargill (Chicago, Hammond) (from Minnetonka, Minnesota, US) ConAgra Foods (from Omaha, Nebraska, US) Maple Leaf Foods (Des Plaines) (from Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Richelieu Foods (Elk Grove Village) (from Randolph, Massachusetts, US) Smithfield Foods (Armour-Eckrich Meats LLC) (Lisle and St. Charles) (from Smithfield, Virginia, US)
Its county seat is Blair. [3] Washington County is part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. [4] In the Nebraska license plate system, Washington County is represented by the prefix 29 (it had the 29th-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
The C.C. Crowell Jr. House is a historic house in Blair, Nebraska. It was built in 1901 for C.C. Crowell Jr. by Adolph and Johnny Aye who owned the Aye Brothers feed & seed in Blair and the Aye family lived in the house until 1926 when Mr. Aye died. The house was designed in the Classical Revival and Queen Anne architectural styles.
A high-end EF3 tornado struck the northeastern outskirts of Lincoln, Nebraska in Lancaster County, injuring three people. [4] [5] A long-tracked low-end EF4 tornado caused widespread severe damage in Elkhorn and near Bennington and Blair, and prompted the issuance of two tornado emergencies. [6]