Only one food and beverage exhibitor received an invitation to the 2008 USDA BioPreferred Showcase Conference. Naturally Iowa was one of twenty companies overall to attend the conference meant to give the federal government ideas on how to choose environmentally-friendly products.

The invitation to participate in the conference was only extended to companies that can help the USDA “meet the challenge that Congress has set for us — to increase government procurement and use of biobased products” (source: U.S. Department of Agriculture). Naturally Iowa is currently the only dairy in the world that produces Ingeo? bottles, which are made from plants, not oil.

“Naturally Iowa was very well received at the 2008 USDA BioPreferred(SM) Showcase Conference,” said Richard Jensen, Plant Operations Manager for Naturally Iowa. “We believe that this conference gave the company tremendous exposure as the only dairy company in the world producing biobased Ingeo? containers.” “This conference was an outstanding forum for networking with officials from the GSA and procurement officers,” said William Horner, President and CEO of Naturally Iowa, Inc., “and it gave us a roadmap for taking advantage of the BioPreferred program as we move forward with our plans to aggressively market to the Federal Government.”