CJ parent company buys lab firm
2 Sep 2016
By BILL SHEA (bshea@messengernews.net) , Messenger News
The parent company of CJ Bio America has purchased a research firm, but the deal will not impact its Webster County plant.
Nothing will be relocated to Webster County as a result of the purchase of Massachusetts-based Metalbolix Inc., according to Dennis Plautz, the chief executive officer of the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance.
He said reports that the Metabolix Inc. lab now located in Boston will be coming to Webster County are wrong.
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