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Red Star Yeast dedicates new fermenter at Cedar Rapids plant

Company’s yeast used in 40% of bread baked in North America, officials say
By: Richard Pratt|September 1, 2023
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    Red Star Yeast officials and local leaders gather for a "baguette-cutting" ceremony at a formal ceremony dedicating the plant's newest fermenter Aug. 31, 2023. CREDIT RICHARD PRATT

    Red Star Yeast is already a dominant player in nutritional yeast production, serving a large segment of the global baking, nutrition, health and biotech industries.

    And the formal dedication of a new fermenter at Red Star’s fresh yeast manufacturing plant in southwest Cedar Rapids Aug. 31 – the operation’s tenth fermenter overall, and the fourth new fermenter added since the plant opened in 2006 as a business unit of the…

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