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With the opening of the KettleWorks facility, Kettle & Fire will be able to maintain its standards of quality, transparency and taste while tracking toward becoming the No. 1 brand in the total broth category.

The site can manufacture the brand’s entire regional dry kibble portfolio, making it the brand’s largest dry pet food factory globally.

Eligible facilities need to have been completed between Oct. 1, 2024 and Sept. 30, 2025.

The new facility will nearly double Archer’s overall manufacturing capacity and will be primarily focused on producing Archer’s lineup of meat sticks.

EIC Alyse Thompson-Richards recaps some recent plant openings and expansions in the food and beverage industry.

The vertically integrated plant will process an estimated 116,000 gallons of local milk dairy, displaying the local nature of California’s dairy industry.

The facility will employ over 200 associates when fully ramped.

Anticipated to launch in August, Mission’s Guatemala packinghouse is engineered for performance.

The 100,000-sq.-ft. plant offers up to 15,000 metric tons of production capability, which is five times MANE’s current capacity.

When completed, the plant will have 28 production lines and will be able to produce over 1 billion pounds of dairy products per year.