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Advanced manufacturing in the Iowa City area can be found in numerous local and Fortune 500 companies in the aerospace, defense, food and beverage, health and beauty, recycling, and packaging industries, just to name a few. These companies are at the forefront of their industries, utilizing new manufacturing techniques and innovative solutions for information technology, organizational operations, and electronics.
International Automotive Components (formerly Lear Corporation)
Spotlight: Procter & Gamble/Oral-B Laboratories
Oral-B continues to manufacture the No. 1 brand of toothbrushes in the world at its Iowa City location, just as it has for the past 47 years. And P&G’s Iowa City plant recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in Iowa City.
"The technologies we apply here make us competitive globally," according to Anita Falkofske Eaton, plant manager of the Iowa City Oral-B Laboratories. "The dedication of employees who work in this plant to excellence truly makes it stand head and shoulders above the rest,” she said. "They really focus on their performance. You can see it when you walk through the plant; they really care and work hard." Those workers produce 1 million manual toothbrushes daily in the largest toothbrush factory in the world.
