Manufacturer has plenty to celebrate
It’s not every day that a U.S. senator throws a New Hampton business a bouquet, but then again, New Hampton Metal Fab has plenty to celebrate these days.Sixteen months after the manufacturer merged with a Mediapolis firm and a few months after purchasing an Ohio business, the company that services the needs of theprecast concrete industry in all 50 states, Canadian provinces and beyond is poised for growth.During a tour of the company’s plant in the city’s west-side Industrial Park, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, was, in a word, impressed.— For more on this story, see the Jan. 29 New Hampton Tribune.