Clinton, Iowa

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Metabolix Inc., a leader in the use of bioscience to provide sustainable, clean solutions for plastics, fuels and chemicals, and ADM, a global leader in BioEnergy and a premier agricultural processor, announced that they will jointly produce MirelNatural Plastics. Mirel is a family of high performance natural plastics that are biobased, sustainable and completely biodegradable. Metabolix and ADM are commercializing Mirel through their joint venture, Telles, named for the Roman goddess of the Earth. Telles is now building its first commercial scale plant in Clinton, Iowa. This plant is expected to start up in 2008 and will produce Mirel at an annual rate

(Courtesy of Convertingloop.com) CLINTON, Iowa, July 24, 2001 - International Paper announced this morning that it plans to permanently close its Clinton, Iowa, Foodservice facility. The closure is expected to be completed over the next 16 weeks. Approximately 335 employees will be released as a result of this decision. "We certainly regret it is necessary to close the Clinton Foodservice facility," said Barry Hentz, Foodservice vice president. "The Clinton employees are respected members of the Foodservice team, but unfortunately it was a matter of the facility's economics." The Clinton facility has seen the steady decrease in business since exiting the Retail