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At least eight people were injured in an explosion on Sunday at a processing plant in Illinois, officials say.. The blast occurred at an Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) plant in Decatur at ...
At least eight people in were injured in Decatur, Illinois, after an explosion at a processing plant operated by Archer Daniels Midland Company, officials said.
Mark Edward Whitacre (born May 1, 1957) is an American business executive who came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the Decatur, Illinois-based BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), he became the highest-level corporate executive in U.S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower.
It also processed soybeans under a partnership agreement with ADM at its Decatur, Illinois plant. ADM, through a subsidiary, owned 7.4% of A. E. Staley and would often assist A. E. Staley in filling corn syrup orders for CPC International when the company was in short supply of product. Both companies also had joint ventures producing corn ...
In 1969, ADM relocated its headquarters from Minneapolis to Decatur, Illinois, a location closer to the company's soybean processing operations. [25] [26] At this time, it was already considered one of the world's largest agribusiness company, with a labor force of more than 24,000 employees. [27]
Decatur Fire and Rescue crews responded to a fire at Nova Chemicals on Tuesday.
The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 70,522. [4] It is the seventeenth-most populous city in Illinois. [5] Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production.
CNN, June 16, 2021, Fire at Illinois chemical plant is contained but mandatory evacuation order remains in effect. ABC News, June 15, 2021, Firefighters injured in massive chemical plant fire.