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MEDLINE
MEDLINE. In 2000 Medline, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical products, opened its first office in Dubuque. On September 11, 2001 more than sixty customer-service employees worked an 24-hour emergency alert, the largest logistics operation in the history of the company, following the terrorist destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City. The company's entire workforce was mobilized to respond to emergency government orders of health-care supplies for the victims. (1)
Starting with twenty-five employees, the company's employment reached 275 within a decade. In 2018 the employment reached 481 in the customer service facility at 7900 Chavenelle Road. In 2009 a new 66,000 square-foot facility was opened on Chavenelle Road. In 2018 it was announced the company would leave this facility as soon as its new building on Innovation Drive was constructed. The building became the property of DUBUQUE INITIATIVES which by 2023 had announced several parcel sales. One was destined for a child care program of the DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA/YWCA. In December, 2033 the DUBUQUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT announced that it had purchased a portion for an early childhood program. (2)
The new Medline facility would offer twice the square footage and more opportunities to offer benefits to its employees including a cafeteria, fitness center and gymnasium, pond and walking trail. Medline planned to invest $19.6 million on the new facility including $11.4 on the building's construction. Site plans of the project indicated a possible 30,000-square-foot expansion in the future. Construction in the DUBUQUE INDUSTRIAL CENTER WEST was planned for the summer of 2018 with operations beginning in the new building by late 2019.
The company together with the plans for the new facilities announced intentions to hire more than one hundred additional employees. (3)
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Source:
1. "September 11, 2001," Dubuque by the Decades, Telegraph Herald, July, 2020, p. 51
2. Kelsey, Elizabeth, "Board Tours Future Preschool," Telegraph Herald, December 7, 2023, p. 1A
3. Hinga, Allie. "Medline Plans New Facility," Telegraph Herald, March 16, 2018, p. 1A