Contents: Iowa Spring utilizes CIRAS services to improve productivity and increase productivity; CIRAS offers guide to supply chain sustainability; Competition for high-skill manufacturing workers; Taking measure of the bioeconomy; Iowa firms: Get products biobased certified; What Iowans think about biobased products; Sustainable Economies Program targets Lee County; Security literacy: Your best computer security defense; Companies can save money through energy management; The EPRC: A great industry;university partnership