{"id":259693,"date":"2026-04-09T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:50:09","slug":"sacramento-blue-diamond-plant-to-keep-some-almond-processing-preserving-about-90-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259693\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Blue Diamond plant to keep some almond processing, preserving about 90 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of Blue Diamond&#8217;s Sacramento processing facility will continue to operate, despite last year&#8217;s closure announcement, the company says.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Diamond officials confirmed Thursday that some in-shell almond processing will continue at the 16th and C Street campus.<\/p>\n<p>About 90 jobs will be available, with the company encouraging Sacramento employees to apply.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the plant will close as planned, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Retaining those operations in Sacramento is the most practical and least disruptive option at this stage of the transition,&#8221; Blue Diamond said in their statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/blue-diamond-growers-historic-sacramento-plant-closing\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blue Diamond announced plans to close<\/a> the Sacramento plant in June 2025, with operations shifting to its Turlock and Salida facilities. About 600 workers were expected to be impacted.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento campus includes a building that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of Blue Diamond&#8217;s Sacramento processing facility will continue to operate, despite last year&#8217;s closure announcement, the company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-259693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}