Mid-America Manufacturing

Renewable Energy Group is a full-service biodiesel company that offers a range of plant construction and risk management, raw procurement and biodiesel production, sales and marketing services. The company offers a range of construction services that includes process design and engineering, hazard management and procedures, stringent process safety management, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering, as well as control system engineering. It additionally provides computerized process controls, heat tracing of piping and vessels, chemist and laboratory procedure setups. The company distributes biodiesel to fuel distributors and various municipal transit authorities and maritime, military, home heating and agriculture industries. Renewable Energy Group is located in Ames, Iowa.

Yarn Tree is a wholesale distributor of cross stitch and needlework supplies to retail stores. Yarn Tree also publishes the Needlework Retailer, the only trade magazine devoted entirely to the counted cross stitch, needlepoint, and needlework industry. Yarn Tree and Needlework Retailer are hosts to the annual Nashville Needlework Market, the premier cross stitch trade show.