| Dave Vander Griend founded ICM. Dave Vander Griend founded ICM with 20 employees (including his brother Dennis) and a goal to engineer and build the industry's safest and most efficient distillers grain dryers. ICM also offered commodity marketing services dealing in ethanol and distillers grains. At that time, only 44 of the 74 ethanol plants that had survived the crash of the 1980s remained. |