Manufacturing is booming in Nebraska. Find out where and how [Video]

SNYDER, Neb. — This little village of 300 has become such a manufacturing powerhouse, its population more than doubles when the morning shifts start at the four factories lining the highway.

One company alone employs 250 people making big aerial ladder trucks for fire departments all over North America. The town also boasts another firm making smaller fire engines, still another assembling specialty vehicles for the water well industry, as well as a new food processor.

“We build some pretty cool stuff here,” said Jeff Hunke, who grew up in Snyder and owns and runs Hunke Manufacturing. “I mean, this little town puts aerial ladders in New York City.”

But Snyder isn’t the only place in Nebraska where manufacturing booms.

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