Another Minnesota Company Sets Up Operations In North Dakota

This is really an incredible story with so many story lines.

The Dickinson Press  is reporting:

Ultra Green, based in Plymouth, Minn., expects to start full production in Devils Lake, its first facility in the United States, later this year.

The company will have an estimated 100 employees by year’s end. Employment is expected to increase to between 300 and 350 within three to five years, according to Traynor, who grew up in Fargo and has family in Devils Lake.

Ultra Green, which started in 2007, has been making the products from sugar cane fiber in China, shipping them back to the U.S. for distribution to companies all over the country, including Whole Foods, Safeway and Sam’s Club.

However, it announced last year it was moving all production back to the U.S., with its initial plant in Devils Lake. It also is switching the raw product from sugar cane to wheat straw, the stubble left in wheat fields after farmers harvest their crop.

Devils Lake is back.