Stuttgart Industrial Development Corporation
The Stuttgart Industrial Development Corporation is the organization in Stuttgart charged with economic development. SIDC owns a 237-acre industrial park in Stuttgart on Hartz Seed Road.
The site is cleared and has a 1 percent slope. The site is drained on all sides by ditches and is bounded by undeveloped property to the north, east and south. It is also undeveloped to the west where residential property is located.
Access to the site is by adjacent Park Avenue, which is also U.S. Highway 165. Interstate 40 is 18 miles to the north.
Rail access is available through Union Pacific Railroad, which has a line half a mile to the north of the site.
Airport access is available with full commercial air service at Little Rock National Airport 48 miles to the west.
Port access through a full service water port facility at the Port of Pine Bluff on the Arkansas River is 38 miles to the southwest of the site.
For more information about the SIDC Industrial Park, call (870) 673-1602.

When it comes to economic development, SIDC works closely with local industry. SIDC's existing industry program has reaped a lot of success in recently years, recruiting the suplliers of companies already doing business in Stuttgart.

Ring Container Technologies
Ring Container Technologies produces plastic containers for cooking oil produced by Riceland Foods, Inc.
Ring is a leading supplier of rigid plastic containers, headquartered in Memphis, TN. The company's containers are used mainly for food products, but also for agricultrual chemical and pet products. Ring Container’s success stems from its ability to adjust to the needs of the market. One of those needs included a 35-pound plastic bottle that has become the preferred vehicle for edible oil used by institutions like restaurants and hospitals. It’s sold to leaders in the industry, like Cargill, ADM, Bunge, and Ventura Foods. Ring created the product over 25 years ago, and the investment is still paying off.

Delta Plastics of the South
Delta Plastics of the South is an industry-leading manufacturer and supplier of flexible poly tubing used for furrow irrigation in corn, soybean and cotton fields and side inlet irrigation in rice fields throughout the southern United States. Delta Plastics' products are sold through distributors in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. With a workforce of eighty, Delta Plastics' poly tubing is produced twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and stored in several satellite warehouses. In addition to manufacturing, the company also spends considerable effort recycling used poly tubing. The company picks up used poly tubing from farmers free of charge.

Assembly Component Systems
Suppliers to Lennox Industries have also been recruited to local plants in Stuttgart.
Assembly Component Systems

Fastenal
Another Lennox supplier who recently located in Stuttgart is Fastenal.
Fastenal was founded in 1967 in Winona, MN by company Chairman, Bob Kierlin. From this beginning, Fastenal has expanded to become the fastest growing full-line industrial distributor, and is now the largest fastener distributor in the nation. Our service-oriented business network currently includes an in-house Manufacturing Division, a product Quality Assurance and Engineering Department, a strategic system of 12 Distribution Centers in the U.S., a fleet of over 275 company-owned semi-trucks and trailers and over 2,160 Store sites.

Sage V Foods
SAGE V FOODS, LLC. (pronounced Sage Five) specializes in producing rice based ingredients for use in processed foods and has developed the most complete line of rice products in the industry.
The company was founded by Pete Vegas in 1992 as a subsidiary of American Rice/Comet Rice (a large rice milling company) and operated under the name Comet Rice Ingredients. The company was formed to create innovative new applications for rice and develop new rice products to meet those needs. The company started with rice flours and then expanded into modified flours, specialty varieties of rice, instant rice, specialty extruded products, specialty defatted products, and more recently has focused its resources on developing a line of frozen rice. In October of 1998, management bought the company from American Rice, Inc. and renamed the company Sage V Foods.

AgriTechSorbents
AgriTec Systems Inc. of Webster, Texas, in a joint venture with Producers Rice Mill at Stuttgart, built a manufacturing plant using patented technology for producing liquid sodium silicate and activated carbon products from rice hull ash.
Carbon is used as an industrial absorbent in filtration systems, Proctor said. Sodium silicate is a starting material for silica-based products, such as the silica gel packs used to keep packages dry
At full capacity, AgriTecSorbents will produce about 8 million pounds of carbon per year and about 28 million pounds of silica per year. The United States markets use 135 million pounds of carbon and about 2 billion pounds of silica annually.