© Google
Dannon will invest $25 million in an expansion to its production plant in Minster, Ohio.
The upgrade includes 300,000 additional square feet of refrigerated distribution space and a further 50 dock doors, which will increase the White Plains, New York-based company’s capacity to distribute its products across the US.
The plant in Minster is one of four Dannon yogurt sites in the US, alongside Fort Worth, Texas; West Jordan, Utah; and Portland, Oregon. It has the capacity to produce more than three million cups of yogurt every day.
The factory is located ‘in southern Auglaize County along the Interstate 75 corridor’, according to the Dayton Business Journal, and is less than 100 miles from several major urban centres including Cincinatti, Columbus and Indianapolis.
The latest investment comes nearly six years after Dannon, the US subsidiary of Danone, invested a total of $88 million in expanding production at the Minster plant, which at the time was dubbed ‘the largest yogurt manufacturing plant in North America’.
It has since been surpassed by Chobani’s manufacturing facility in Twin Falls, Idaho – described as the world’s largest yogurt plant.
The company announced ‘a major expansion’ to the Twin Falls facility in March 2016, which it said would help to expand production capability and meet demand for both new and existing products.
It commissioned the Twin Falls site in 2013, becoming Chobani’s second domestic manufacturing facility and the largest yogurt production facility in the world. The company had previously invested more than $450m to build the operation, which has a total footprint of one million square feet.
© FoodBev Media Ltd 2024