CRESCO, Iowa --- A Cresco pallet business is back up and running thanks to hard work by volunteer firefighters and quick thinking by employees. Flames broke out in the warehouse at SMI Co. during ...

He said the plant makes about 30,000 pallets a week. SMI Co. employs a total of 65 people at the manufacturing/warehouse facility and at a sawmill operating in another part of town, Burke said.

He said the plant makes about 30,000 pallets a week. SMI Co. employs 65 people at the manufacturing/warehouse facility and at a sawmill operating in another part of town, Burke said.