Employing about 30 people with a payroll of $1.5m in 2015, Proliant, an Iowa based firm privately held by the father and son team of Wally and Nix Lauridsen, constructed a $24m factory on the outskirts of Feilding for the production of a byproduct from cattle blood plasma, bovine serum albumin (BSA), which is used in pharmaceuticals, vaccines and medical research.
Proliant produces about half of the world's BSA.

In the Manawatu District of the people aged 15 years or over:
40% earn $20,000 or less (NZ 38.8%)
14% earn more than $50,000 (NZ 16.2%)
the unemployment rate is 3.8% (NZ 7.3%)
73.4% of permanent private dwellings are owned with or without a mortgage by the occupant(s) (NZ 66.9%)
Employing about 30 people with a payroll of $1.5m in 2015, Proliant, an Iowa based firm privately held by the father and son team of Wally and Nix Lauridsen, constructed a $24m factory on the outskirts of Feilding for the production of a byproduct from cattle blood plasma, bovine serum albumin (BSA), which is used in pharmaceuticals, vaccines and medical research. Proliant produces about half of the world's BSA.
In the Manawatu District of the people aged 15 years or over:
40% earn $20,000 or less (NZ 38.8%)
14% earn more than $50,000 (NZ 16.2%)
the unemployment rate is 3.8% (NZ 7.3%)
73.4% of permanent private dwellings are owned with or without a mortgage by the occupant(s) (NZ 66.9%)
Feilding