This story originally published by the Muscatine Journal.
Kent Corporation recently announced a number of new hires in various divisions, including 2011 ISU graduate Jason Lents.
Lents is joining Kent Nutrition Group as an Industrial Engineer. He has a farming background and graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Agricultural Engineering. Jason was also a member of the ISU Livestock Judging Team. His focus at Kent will be on cost reduction projects, process improvement, and efficiency studies.
Kent Corporation is a diversified family owned corporation with subsidiary companies developing science and nutrition-based finished food products, food and beverage ingredients, pharmaceutical and personal care applications, animal nutrition and companion animal products. In addition to Grain Processing Corporation, the subsidiary companies consist of Kent Nutrition Group, Kent Pet Group, headquartered in Muscatine Iowa, and Kent Precision Foods Group headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Kent Nutrition Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Kent Corporation, headquartered in Muscatine, Iowa operates throughout the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, New York and Northeastern United States, and has pioneered the development of innovative products, feeding concepts, and programs to improve efficiency and performance in animal nutrition.