ABZORB-A-PRODUCTS was founded in 1985 by C.J. (Skip) Wiuff. The company employs three people in the manufacturing and selling of a full line of absorbents for the manufacturing industry, and also fills response kits for chemical and industrial spills. It is located at P.O. Box 96, Humboldt, IA 50548. Phone: (515) 332-2076.

A.D.F. SYSTEMS, LTD., located at 1302 19^th Street North, P.O. Box 278, Humboldt, IA 50548, was founded in 1984. Lou Fontana is president of the company which manufactures high pressure cleaners and parts washers and employs 40. Phone: (515) 332-5400.

AG PARTS, LTD., was founded in 1991 and remanufactures tractor parts. It is located at 805 13^th Street North, P.O. Box 188, Humboldt, IA 50548, and employs 44 at the plant and has 29 distributors. Rod Mahon is president of the company. Phone: (515) 332-4834.

BLACKTOP SERVICE was founded in 1968. Bob Wagner serves as president. The company employs 30 to 35 (up to 70 in the summer) and applies asphalt and sealcoating. The office is located at 16 North Taft Street, P.O. Box 632, Humboldt, IA 50548. Phone: (515) 332-4208 (office), or toll free at 1-800-846-5460, or (515) 332-4365 (shop).

CALCIUM PRODUCTS, INC., is located at RR 1, Gilmore City, IA 50541. The company grinds limestone for calcium carbonate to use in animal feeds and other industrial uses, and also granulates or pelletizes limestone for soil enhancement. The company was founded in 1987. A second plant was opened in 1996 in Fort Dodge to pelletize gypsum for fertilizer. Larry Moore is president of the company which employs 18 people at the two locations. Phone: (515) 373-6554.

CHANTLAND COMPANY, has its offices located at the plant at 502 North 7^th Street, Dakota City, IA 50529. Mailing address is P.O. Box 69, Humboldt, IA 50548. Chantland Company was founded in 1943 and now employs 440 individuals. Division Manager is George Flurey. The company manufactures belt conveyor pulleys, bag filling and packaging equipment, and palletizers. Phone: (515) 332-4040.

DEKALB, located at 302 Sumner Avenue, P.O. Box 307, Humboldt, IA 50548, is managed by John Heinle. The plant opened in 1936 and produces, conditions and distributes hybrid seed corn. There are 14 permanent employees, however, during harvest season the company work force is increased 50 to 60. Phone: (515) 332-1368.

DODGEN INDUSTRIES, is located at Highway 169 North, P.O. Box 39, Humboldt, IA 50548. John N. Dodgen is president of the company which employs 80. The company was founded in 1962, and manufactures motor homes, mobile veterinary clinics, mobile tech labs, mobile medical clinics, mobile police units and mobile showrooms. Phone: (515) 332-3755.

FARMEGG PRODUCTS, Division of B.C. Enterprises, Inc., is located at 2088 120^th Street, Humboldt, IA 50548. Russ Dugan is the marketing manager and Kent Tigges is the C.E.O. for the company which was founded in 1968. This egg production and processing industry employs 70. Phone: (515) 545-3922.

FRIT INDUSTRIES, serves as a warehouse for micronutrients and fertilizer. It is located on Highway 169 North, P.O. Box 636, Humboldt, IA 50548. Dick Grebner serves as manager of the company which employs three people. Phone: (515) 332-4722.

GIESE LIMESTONE AGGREGATES, provides coarse aggregate for both road contractors and the general public. Located at 2044 Penn Avenue, Humboldt, IA 50548, the company employs 20 people. Glenn Roest is the plant manager. Phone: (515) 332-4797.

GIESE READY MIX, P.O. Box 542, Humboldt, IA 50548, is located on Highway 169 North in Humboldt. The Humboldt branch was founded in 1986 and employs five to six people. Giese has headquarters in Fort Dodge. Bill Giese is president of the company. Karen Buenting is the plant manager at the Humboldt location which provides ready mix concrete. Phone: (515) 332-1972.

GUNDER CHURCH FURNITURE, employs 39 people and is located at 107 Main, Dakota City, IA 50529. The mailing address is P.O. Box 308, Humboldt, IA 50548. The company was founded in 1952. Ron Silbaugh is president of the company which manufactures church furniture and wooden parts for gym equipment. Phone: (515) 332-2311.

HADAR MANUFACTURING, is located at 1515 11^th Street North, P.O. Box 218, Humboldt, IA 50548. The company was founded in 1959. Today, it employs 23 people in the manufacturing of athletic equipment, playground and conditioning equipment, football dummies, shot puts and mats. Wayne Miner is plant manager. Joe Hadar is in charge of research and development. Mary Miner is the financial officer. Phone: (515) 332-5312.

HANISCH MANUFACTURING, is a contract machining industry founded in 1965. It employs seven people and is located at 1310 8^th Avenue North, P.O. Box 608, Humboldt, IA 50548. The president is Dale Hanisch. Phone: (515) 332-2613.

HOG SLAT, INC., MIDWEST DIVISION, is located at 1112 20^th Street North, P.O. Box 543, Humboldt, IA 50548. Manufacturing operations were started in Humboldt in March of 1993. The company employs 200 in the manufacturing of hog equipment, including concrete flooring products, and offers turn key construction builders. Wendell Burge is the general manager. Phone: (515) 332-4014.

HOTSY CORPORATION, 1213 12^th Avenue North, Humboldt, IA 50548, employs 32 people in the manufacturing of hot water high pressure cleaning equipment. The company, with a home office in Englewood, CO, was founded in 1965. Vern Thompson is the plant manager. Phone: (515) 332-2800.

HUMBOLDT CONCRETE PRODUCTS, founded in 1917, manufactures concrete pipe, drain tile, pre-stressed concrete bridge beams and piling, and ready mix concrete. Mike Neppl is the plant manager of the company which employs 24 people. The parent company, Zeidlers, Inc., is located in Waterloo, IA. Phone: (515) 332-3015.

HUMBOLDT INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER, is located at P.O. Box 157, 512 Sumner Avenue, Humboldt, IA 50548. The newspaper was founded in 1860. The company publishes a weekly newspaper, offers a full-service print shop, offers the latest news and information through Tele-News (332-1551), and provides a welcome to new people in the community through a Community Welcome program. Jim Gargano is president of the company which employs 10 people. Phone: (515) 332-2514.

HUMBOLDT REMINDER, which was founded in 1932, is located at P.O. Box 549, 602 Sumner Avenue, Humboldt, IA 50548. The company publishes a wide area shopper which circulates to more than 13,000 homes in Humboldt County and surrounding counties each week. Jim Gargano is president of the company which employs 12 people, plus approximately 100 carriers. Phone: (515) 332-3425.

HUMBOLDT SPRINGS WATER COMPANY, located at 610 13^th Street North, Humboldt, IA 50548, was founded in 1957. The company employs six people and produces and bottles drinking water, baby water and distilled water. Mike Allen is the owner of the company. Phone: (515) 332-1602.

HUMBOLDT SAUSAGE COMPANY, 1515 North 15^th Street, Humboldt, IA 50548, produces dry and pizza sausage, pepperoni and salami. The company, founded in 1973, employs 60. Paul Lange is the vice-president/manager. Phone: (515) 332-4121, fax (515) 332-2629.

HUMBOLDT SCREEN PRINTING, located at 623 Sumner Avenue, Humboldt, IA 50548, does screen printing on T-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, etc. The company was founded in 1987 and employs four. Darrell Rusher is general manager. Phone: (515) 332-1852.

HY-CAPACITY ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC., was founded in 1978 and is located on Highway 169 South. Mailing address is P.O. Box 156, Humboldt, IA 50548. The industry employs 58 at the Humboldt plant, plus has 21 distributors. The company remanufactures clutches, torque amplifiers, and water pumps for farm tractors and distributes many other farm tractor parts. Steve Olson is president of the company. Phone: (515) 332-2125. AGRI-CLUTCH became a division of Hy-Capacity in 1995. It was founded in 1980 by Bruce Bratland and Dan McKibban. They remanufacture farm tractor clutches, employing seven people at the plant in Livermore (503 5^th Street, Livermore, IA 50558). Phone: (515) 379-1884.

JENSEN ENTERPRISES, LTD, DBA JENSEN TRAILERS, is located at 811 13^th Street North, Humboldt, IA 50548. Walter Jensen is president of the company which was founded in 1974. The company manufactures custom enclosed trailers and employs 14. Phone: (515) 332-5963.

JET COMPANY, was founded in 1952 by Merle J. Heider. The company employs 100 in the manufacturing of wire rollers, level winds, post drivers, manual and electric tarps, air rides for motorhomes, steel and aluminum grain trailers, steel and aluminum flat bed trailers. The company is located at 1303 13^th Street North, Humboldt, IA 50548. Phone: (515) 332-3117.

J.I.T. MACHINING, INC., is located at P.O. Box 616, 1103 16^th Avenue North, Humboldt, IA 50548. The company is a contract shop which manufactures components for other manufacturers. It was founded in 1992 by President Susan Skow and Larry Johnson, and currently employs six. Phone: (515) 332-3787, fax (515) 332-3789.

MARTIN-MARIETTA AGGREGATES, a division of Martin Marietta Materials, started here in 1980 through an acquisition. The company offers crushed stone and ag lime. Located at rural Humboldt, the company employs 60 people at three locations. Jay Johnson serves as sales representative. The parent company, Martin Marietta Materials, is located at Raleigh, North Carolina. Phone: Humboldt location (515) 332-1256; Gilmore City location (515) 373-6543; and Fort Dodge location (515) 573-8151.

NEW COOP, is located at 1 Sumner Avenue, Humboldt, IA 50548, and sells feed, grain and crop products, employing six people. Kevin Thilges is location manager. Phone: (515) 332-3374. TWIN LAKES ENERGY, is part of NEW Coop and is located at 1203 11^th Avenue North, Humboldt, IA 50548. It provides 24 hour fuel and all petroleum products. Frank Davis is the manager. Phone: (515) 332-4852.

PASQUALE'S FOOD SERVICE, located at 611 13^th Street North, Humboldt, IA 50548, is owned and operated by Marlene Stockdale. The business, founded in 1966, employs 20 people in the production of frozen pizza and sandwiches. Phone: (515) 332-1736.

PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., P.O. Box 297, Renwick, IA 50577, started operations in Renwick in 1983 and is a seed soybean conditioning industry. Larry Lubinus serves as plant manager. The company employs 12 full-time and 19 part-time at the Renwick location. Phone: (515) 824-3272.

PRECISION PLASTICS, INC., with Ed Allen as president, was founded in 1990. The company, which employs four to six people, is located at 1971 220^th Street, Humboldt, IA 50548. it manufactures plastic bottles in gallon and one-half gallon sizes. Phone: (515) 332-1361.

SANDE CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY COMPANY, INC., located at P.O. Box 368, 1111 16^th Avenue North, Humboldt, IA 50548, was founded in 1948. Ron Sande is president of the company which is a general contractor for construction. The company employs 50 people. Phone: (515) 332-2021.

SYNTEX INDUSTRIES, INC., P.O. Box 215, 510 13^th Street North, Humboldt, IA 50548, was established in 1978. Ron Burch is president of the company which employs nearly 10 people in the manufacturing of truck covers, custom awnings, contract sewing, air conditioner covers, vehicle load signs, water tanks for fire departments and welding aprons. Phone: (515) 332-3265.

WIUFF MILLING PRODUCTS, P.O. Box 96, Humboldt, IA 50548, mills corn cobs into chemical carriers, absorbents, and small animal litter. Founded in 1971, the company employs five people. C.J. (Skip) Wiuff is president. Phone: (515) 332-3474.

YACHT CLUB TRAILERS, founded in 1976, is located at P.O. Box 569, 1419 11^th Street North, Humboldt, IA 50548. Rod Harklau is the general manager of the company which manufactures Yacht Club trailers (boat, canoe, snowmobile, utility, golf cart and motorcycle trailers). The company employs 100 people. Phone: (515) 332-1802.