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Senior Electrical Engineer from Continental's Wahpeton facility, Ross Dale, earned Plant Engineering's Engineering Leader Under 40 award. Read on to learn more about Ross and his unique path to becoming an electrical engineer.

The Wahpeton facility celebrated National Manufacturing Day on October 4, with a variety of activities for employees during the week, culminating with a cook-out for lunch for every shift to celebrate employees and their contributions to Continental and manufacturing.

Our summer internship program continued this summer, from May 13 - August 16, with two engineering interns from North Dakota State University. Read on to learn more about the importance of our summer interns and a recap of their support.

The Wahpeton facility's Head of Plant Management, Rod Koch, P.E., was recently named to the Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Impact Dakota's Faces of Manufacturing List! To celebrate this achievement, the Chamber hosted a luncheon for the winners along with North Dakota Governor, Doug Burgum.

Properly working draper headers are critical for small grain harvesting including wheat, barley, durum, canola, soybeans, and more. What makes harvest possible from a machinery perspective is the center feed belt; without it, the draper header will not work properly. We connected with Chad Haugen, R&D Engineer in Conveying Solutions, ContiTech, to learn more about this critical combine component.

A group of about a dozen employees including engineers, members of the quality team, and more from the Wahpeton facility attended the Big Iron Farm and Construction Show in West Fargo in mid-September. The team showed off some of the many belting products made at the facility, including WCCO belts, and talked to customers and potential customers. 

We are honored to have earned a place on Prairie Business Magazine's list of 50 Best Places to Work in 2024 for the TENTH TIME, thanks to our wonderful employees!

Our Head of Plant Management, Rod Koch, spoke with Prairie Business Magazine about the creative ways the Continental facility attracts and retains talent.

We were excited to celebrate our employees by providing donuts in honor of having 4,000 employee suggestions submitted! Read on to learn more about the program and to hear about some of the types of suggestions that have been submitted and implemented.

Our Head of Plant Management, Rod Koch, was interviewed by Modern Machine Shop magazine for an article about how Continental is leveraging the machine tooling capabilities at the Wahpeton plant for the benefit of several of its plants. This demonstrates that even across timezones and tasks, when it comes to manufacturing, collaboration is key.