Tech Corridor Food Processing

The Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Tech Corridor is one of the leading regions in the United States for food processing. A number of companies including General Mills, Inc.; Quaker Oats, a Pepsico Company; H.J. Heinz; Bochner Chocolates and Ralston Foods serve the North American market from our community.

Due to the area's concentration of food processing companies already established here, the area provides abundant water, wastewater, affordable electricity and natural gas and invests in the regions already reliable infrastructure system.

Interstate 380 runs north and south between Cedar Rapids and Iowa, and Interstate 80 runs directly through the Iowa City area.  Our region is perfectly positioned for rail and trucking to all major Midwestern cities.

Food Processing Laborshed

Laborshed information for this industry can be downloaded by clicking the link to the left.