PEORIA - When you enter the grounds of PMP Fermentation, 900 NE Adams St., you're stepping back into Peoria history even as you view the workings of a modern chemical company.The riverfront plant, owned by Fuso Chemical Co. of Japan, produces sodium gluconate, a multipurpose product derived from corn syrup. Peoria benefited from Iowa's alcohol prohibition legislation in 1884, bringing the four Leisy brothers here from Keokuk, where they ran a small [...]
