(Radio Iowa) - The co-founder of the company operating a baby formula factory in southern Iowa says there's an opportunity for significant growth in production capacity and the workforce at the plant in Allerton.
Ron Belldegrun is C-E-O of ByHeart, which bought the DairiConcepts plant in Allerton after using the facility in 2019 during trials of its new recipe for baby formula. Belldegrun says ByHeart invested very heavily in the Allerton plant to make it a state of the art baby formula factory and there are now 100 people employed at the facility.
He says the company has a big vision for what's next in Allerton -- including the possibility of adding canning and packaging of its powered formula at the site.