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More Ag Manufacturing Jobs Coming To Hesston

GVL Polymers
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GVL Polymers

GVL Polymers Inc., will soon open a plant in Kansas, just north of Newton. 

The company plans to build a 50,000-square-foot facility in Hesston and says it will employ more than 20 full-time workers within its first year. GVL's main plant and headquarters are in Litchfield, Minn., where it employees 40 people. The Hesston location will be the company's second plant.

The company makes rotational molded, polyethylene parts for agricultural, industrial, and commercial industries. GVL's company's main product is its proprietary poly corn snout for combines.

The company will  discuss its new plant at 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 27 at Silverstone Inc., 8515 N. Hesston Road, Hesston.

When she's not out making lattes in her mobile coffee bus Sunflower Espresso, Kate Hutchens is a fill-in host for KMUW. She has worked in broadcast journalism at KFDI, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and at KMUW as Morning Edition host, which she did until March 2017.