SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. –\u00a0Chobani is planning to invest about\u00a0$1.2 billion in a\u00a0manufacturing and warehouse campus in Lehigh County expected to create\u00a0more than 900 jobs.<\/p>\n
The company plans to spend the money\u00a0over the next five years on the 1.5-million-square-foot manufacturing and warehouse campus in Upper Macungie Township, according to a news release from the company.<\/p>\n
Chobani said it will acquire\u00a0Keurig Dr Pepper’s\u00a0manufacturing facility and warehouse in Upper Macungie,\u00a0including its equipment and related infrastructure, as part of an\u00a0expanded partnership with the company.<\/p>\n
Chobani says the facility, which was first opened for production in 2021, provides the company a starting point to build on with new equipment, technology and production capabilities.<\/p>\n
With plans for up to 10 production lines, the campus will give Chobani the capacity to scale the new products while continuing to develop new formats and food and beverage platforms, according to the news release.<\/p>\n
Chobani said it has grown approximately 20 percent annually over the past three years, giving the company confidence to continue investing in its future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The company said the facility sits within 500 miles of approximately 40 percent of the U.S. population, providing access to some of the country’s largest consumer markets and helping Chobani bring its products to families across the country.<\/p>\n
“When I first walked through this factory, I knew there was something special here. The facility, the equipment, the scale, but most importantly, the people. There’s already an incredibly talented team here that knows how to make great food. The foundation is strong. And we have an opportunity to build something extraordinary on top of it,” said Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder and CEO of Chobani.<\/p>\n
“Then you look outside and see what surrounds it. Pennsylvania has generations of dairy families producing some of the best milk in America. That means everything to me, it reminds me of Upstate New York, where we started Chobani, and where dairy farmers have been part of our story for more than 20 years.”<\/p>\n
“I’ve spent a lot of time on our farms and in our rural communities, hearing directly from Pennsylvanians about the kind of investments they want to see in our Commonwealth. This $1.2 billion investment from Chobani is the largest private sector investment in the history of Pennsylvania’s agriculture industry and will strengthen our dairy industry, support our farmers, and reinforce our position as a national leader in agriculture and food manufacturing,” said Gov. Josh Shapiro.<\/p>\n
“Pennsylvania is aggressively competing for \u2014 and winning \u2014 the biggest economic development projects in the country because we’re making strategic investments, moving at the speed of business, and giving companies confidence that they will thrive here \u2013 and I’m proud this investment will benefit our dairy industry and rural communities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. –\u00a0Chobani is planning to invest about\u00a0$1.2 billion in a\u00a0manufacturing and warehouse campus in Lehigh County expected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-277346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277346","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=277346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}