Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen told reporters by phone from Japan Monday that he’s seeing lots of success for his trade mission to South Korea and Japan.
Pillen and the rest of the roughly 20-member delegation return home today (Tuesday).
Pillen didn’t detail any new initiatives, but said the trip has been building upon existing relationships with international trade partners and businesses to expand purchases of Nebraska products and investments in Nebraska.
Pillen said the part he was most proud of were what he called “tangible meetings that are going to result in a lot of business taking place that’s going to be beneficial for Nebraska.”
In South Korea, the group met with such companies as SK Inc, which has invested in Monolith Materials of Hallam, a producer of clean hydrogen.
In Japan, the delegation met with, among others, Mitsubishi and Kawasaki, which has a manufacturing plant in Lincoln.
Pillen, whose family-run hog operation is Nebraska’s largest pork producer, said he thanked Japanese officials for being the state’s largest export market for pork and eggs.
He said he also thanked them for being the state’s second-largest export market for beef and third-largest for corn