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• BRANDON, S.D. (AP) -- A 150,000 square-foot plant in Brandon originally built by a wind tower manufacturing firm that never ended up using it is getting a new company.
• The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/XOOCXt) that Canada-based wind tower manufacturer Marmen Inc. plans to hire 200 people at the plant.
• The company says it will be its first U.S. facility, and it hopes to use the plant to increase market share in the wind industry. It praised the South Dakota site for its location and transportation costs.
• The Brandon building sits on 41 acres in the Corson Development Park on the north side of Interstate 90.
• It was built in 2010 for Tower Tech Systems, a division of Broadwind Energy, but operations were put on hold because the company could not secure enough contracts.
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• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- A world-renowned chemist will give the annual Haines lecture at the University of South Dakota on Monday.
• Omar M. Yaghi, professor of chemistry at the University of California-Berkeley, will talk about porous crystals for clean energy. He is also director for the molecular foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
• Yaghi works on the synthesis, structure and properties of inorganic compounds and the design and construction of new crystalline materials.
• The Haines lecture is sponsored by the USD Chemistry Department. The annual lecture was established in 1956 in honor of Arthur Lee Haines, a longtime member of the Chemistry Department.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard will join a South Dakota delegation attending a bioscience conference that starts Sunday in Chicago.
• The governor says the delegation's attendance at the BIO International Conference could help persuade companies to locate in South Dakota.
• Daugaard says he attended last year's conference, and that has led to discussions with several companies that are considering expanding their operations to South Dakota.

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