{"id":277300,"date":"2026-09-02T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277300\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:35:02","slug":"chobani-invests-1-2-billion-to-establish-dairy-manufacturing-operation-in-pennsylania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277300\/","title":{"rendered":"Chobani invests $1.2 billion to establish dairy manufacturing operation in Pennsylania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Chobani plans to invest $1.2 billion to establish a dairy product manufacturing operation in Lehigh County. Officials say it&#8217;s the largest private investment in Pennsylvania agriculture history. <\/p>\n<p>The facility is expected to create 900 full-time jobs and expand markets and opportunities for over 4,000 Pennsylvania dairy farmers, according to the state Department of Agriculture. <\/p>\n<p>Chobani plans to take over the facility and equipment that was formerly used by Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) at 7356 Industrial Boulevard in Upper Macungie Township.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Agriculture estimates this move will create the largest increase in demand for Pennsylvania dairy in the state&#8217;s history. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPennsylvania is aggressively competing for \u2014 and winning \u2014 the biggest economic development projects in the country because we&#8217;re making strategic investments, moving at the speed of business, and giving companies confidence that they will thrive here,&#8221; Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Chobani plans to invest $1.2 billion to establish a dairy product manufacturing operation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-277300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}