Manufacturing Industry In-plants Close To The Core

Insourcing Brings In Revenue

One thing many manufacturing in-plants have in common is insourcing. Curt Larson, manager of printing services for Land O' Lakes, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, says there's one reason why his shop decided to insource work.

"Bottom line," he says, simply.

To that end, the 11-employee in-plant has two outside salespeople who seek out customers in the manufacturing and recreation fields. He says his facility mainly produces brochures, direct mail, small posters and other marketing material for those clients.