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Omaha Steve

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Tue Jan 20, 2015, 11:56 PM Jan 2015

1 year after deadly International Nutrition collapse, new plant taking shape


Several union logos in the top construction photo.

http://www.omaha.com/money/year-after-deadly-international-nutrition-collapse-new-plant-taking-shape/article_fae7aa3e-b9cc-56d2-a328-e135838bd79c.html



BRENDAN SULLIVAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Crews build a freight elevator shaft for the new International Nutrition plant going up at 7706 I Plaza. The collapse of the plant at the same site a year ago killed two workers and injured nine.

POSTED: TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015 1:00 AM
By Janice Podsada / World-Herald staff writer

A year ago today, the collapse of the International Nutrition plant in south-central Omaha killed two plant workers. Nine others were injured.
Now, the site of the former plant, demolished last spring, looks like the first phase of any industrial construction project.


KENNETH HAHN ARCHITECTS, OMAHA

An architect’s rendering of the new International Nutrition plant. The facility is expected to be operational by late summer.

Steven Silver, president of International Nutrition Inc., has kept his promise and is constructing a new manufacturing facility from the ground up.

“We are rebuilding,” Silver said.

FULL story at link.

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