EIC Alyse Thompson-Richards recaps some recent plant openings and expansions in the food and beverage industry, including Mars’ new Nature’s Bakery facility, CJ Schwan’s distribution center, Chomps’ Missouri manufacturing facility, Westrock Coffee’s single-serve coffee products plant and Puratos’ pilot bakery facility.
Year over year, Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches has doubled in size and has outgrown its current production facility. The new location will serve as a production facility and corporate headquarters.
The newly acquired facility will optimize Quirch Foods’ logistics operations, enabling the company to meet growing customer demand with greater efficiency and flexibility.
The collaboration equips JBS Foods with the ManageEngine solutions that the company requires to unify its infrastructure management successfully, including more than 25,000 endpoints, 250 IT staff and 70,000 users in the U.S.
EIC Alyse Thompson-Richards recaps some recent plant openings, expansions and closures in the food and beverage industry, including Nelson-Jameson’s distribution center, Oatly’s closure of its Singapore plant, Richardson’s oat processing facility expansion, Vertical Cold Storage’s multimodal distribution center and cellular agriculture accelerator The Cultured Hub.
The debut of the expanded Beyond Steak line follows the U.S. retail launch of Beyond Meat’s newly renovated Beyond Burger, Beyond Beef and Beyond Sausage (Beyond IV), now made with avocado oil, which is high in monounsaturated fats.