CEDAR RAPIDS — Like its product, the Red Star Yeast plant in southwest Cedar Rapids keeps expanding.
“This is an important milestone for us,” Tom Benner told the crowd gathered Thursday morning. “We’ve done a lot of ribbon cuttings. This is the first time we’re going to try it with a baguette.”
Benner, president and CEO of Lesaffre North America, the Red Star parent company, joined company staff and Cedar Rapids officials to cut an outsize version of the traditional crusty French bread to celebrate the completion of the 10th fermentation unit at its plant at 950 60th Ave. SW.
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