Iowa businesses want to know more about automation, and CIRAS is working on ways to help them. CIRAS currently is looking to expand its automation support capabilities and could have more details available about that in the coming months.
Month: July 2015
New Regional Peer Forums Intended to Engage, Educate Iowa’s Professionals
A new series of BizWise regional peer forums is launching this year as part of an ongoing effort by CIRAS and the Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) to help Iowa business professionals stay ahead of the curve and perform at their peak.
Why Legumes?
For four decades, Dr. Wilmot Wijeratne has studied natural grain production and ways to bring the best products to consumers. He was instrumental in developing the basic technique for extracting excess oil from soybeans, and he helped create a process to do that on a large scale. Now, Wijeratne, director of food technology for Harvest Innovations, is looking at legumes—lentils, chickpeas, and garbanzo beans—to feed the latest needs of savvy shoppers.
CIRAS-Arranged Work Helps Legumes Lift Harvest Innovations
A long and profitable relationship between CIRAS and Indianola-based Harvest Innovations is expected to substantially boost the company’s sales, thanks largely to CIRAS-arranged work that helped perfect a technique for extracting proteins from legumes.