WATERLOO TECHNICAL SOCIETY
Wednesday August 13th, 2025
POET Biofuel Plant
Tour at 3:45 pm
30750 212th St, Shell Rock, IA
Following the tour, we will adjourn to
The Other Place, 821 W Bremer Ave, Waverly, IA
Members will order from the menu and pay for their orders.
Tour Guide and Host: Kristin Clay, General Manager POET Shell Rock Bioprocessing facility. Kristin holds a BA in biology from UNI. She spent her first 20 years after college in environmental chemistry. She worked for an Environmental laboratory in Cedar Falls the whole time in various roles ending as the Inorganic Chemistry Department Manager.
Since then, she's been in the ethanol industry for the last 15 years also serving in multiple roles. While she's covered the same facilities this whole time, it's had 3 different owners: Hawkeye Renewables, Flint Hills Resources and POET. Roles Kristin previously held in those 15 years were the Laboratory Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Manager at the Shell Rock facility as well as the Operations Technical Leader covering six plants within the company. Currently she is the General Manager of the POET Shell Rock Bioprocessing facility.
Description: This state-of-the-art facility produces 131 million gallons of bioethanol annually. It provides a high performance, environmentally friendly fuel as well as premium, high-quality livestock feed solutions for regional, national and international markets.
POET Bioprocessing – Shell Rock, is part of the Shell Rock, IA community, employing local community members and enhancing the local economy with improved corn prices, value-added markets for farmers, good-paying jobs, and increased local tax revenue.
Program Chair: Steven Crouse
Reservations: reservations@waterlootechnicalsociety.org, by 11am Monday, August 11th, 2025
Please indicate if your reservation includes dinner or is just for the program.
Social period: The Other Place, after the tour
Dinner: The Other Place, 821 Bremer Ave, Waverly IA, after the tour
Tour: 3:45 pm, August 13, 2025.
Program Chair: Steve Crouse
Guests are always welcome. We need your reservation to enable us to have a name tag for you as well as to send you a reminder in email.
You are welcome to make a reservation for dinner or just come for the program. A program-only reservation is appreciated for a head count.
