AUGUST 2022

Goya Foods celebrated the expansion of its facility in Illinois where it has been operating for more than half a century. The Chicago-area facility, totaling nearly 300,000 sq. ft., will double the amount of food distribution throughout the Midwest, including an additional 10 states and emerging markets. The building is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and machinery in order to operate more efficiently and to support Goya’s growth worldwide.

Bowery Farming, a vertical farming company, opened its largest, most technologically advanced and sustainable commercial smart farm in Bethlehem, Pa. Transforming a former Bethlehem Steel brownfield from a non-arable industrial site into modern farmland, the company’s newest commercial farm lays the groundwork for the next chapter in climate-smart agriculture.

T. Hasegawa USA officially opened a new 60,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., which augments the company’s manufacturing resources in the U.S. market by 50% and expands capabilities in sweet flavor production and technology.

PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA), a division of PepsiCo, opened a new $8.5 million, 172,000-sq.-ft. warehouse and distribution facility in Commerce, Ga. The full-scale distribution center will create 50 new jobs and distribute almost six million cases of beverages—including Pepsi, MTN Dew, Gatorade, bubly, Aquafina and Pure Leaf—per year across 26 routes to customers in 28 counties, a capacity increase that will be felt throughout Georgia cities Gainesville, Rome, Athens, Stone Mountain and Atlanta.

World Distribution Services (WDS), a provider of warehouse logistics solutions, has announced enhancements to its new Linden, N.J.-based distribution facility, providing much-needed additional warehouse capacity to the N.Y./N.J. port community. Additional racking to maximize available space will allow for more than 20,000 racked positions and 200,000 sq. ft. for bulk storage.

Gray, a fully integrated, global services A&E firm for the food and beverage market, and Häns Kissle, a provider of high-quality, fresh prepared foods, broke ground on a new 98,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility that will produce RTE deli salads and fresh prepared foods. The facility is located in Gastonia, N.C., and is expected to be completed in 2023.

Oishii has opened a 74,000-sq.-ft. vertical strawberry farm at the old Anheuser-Busch factory in Jersey City, N.J., growing strawberries five rows deep in the retrofitted factory. The Jersey City facility consumes 60% less energy and 40% less water than the first-gen technology created and used at Oishii’s R&D facility in Kearny, N.J.

Founded in 2020, Company Distilling held the grand opening of its first newly constructed distillery in Townsend, Tenn.

FreshBrew, a coffee and tea producer, has upgraded its Houston facility, adding 11 packing lines in a total 140,000 sq. ft. for both the roasting plant and warehouse. The expansion, valued at $10 million, is expected to be complete in early 2023.

SinnovaTek, the Raleigh, N.C.-based food-processing company, which provides entrepreneurs and established companies access to a manufacturing line using technology licensed through North Carolina State University, is in the process of constructing a 100,000-sq.-ft. facility in Middlesex.

Gehl Foods, LLC, a food and beverage manufacturing company, has established operations in Walterboro, S.C. The company’s $46 million investment is creating 106 new jobs. Founded in 1896, the company is a producer of dairy-based and dairy-alternative shelf-stable beverages, cheese sauces, soups, broths, teas, wine and spirits and more.

Molson Coors Beverage Company broke ground on a $65 million project to build a 200,000-sq.-ft. variety packing warehouse at its Fort Worth brewery. The facility will allow the company to bring additional hard seltzer production and final pack assembly in-house. The project will be completed later this year. FE

AUGUST 2022

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