Newly Weds Foods to set up new facility in Kentucky

Newly Weds Foods, a US-based food ingredients company, is set to establish a $57m regional production facility in the city of Erlanger, Boone County in northern Kentucky, US.

The new food ingredients manufacturing plant will be located at Circleport Business Park in Erlanger, and will produce Japanese-style bread crumbs, called Panko, American-style bread crumbs as well as cracker meals.

The company has purchased an existing 326,000ft² facility in the region, with plans to expand the plant by at least another 90,000ft² depending on requirements.

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear said that the new plant will create nearly 115 jobs in the region.

Newly Weds Foods president Charles T Angell said that demand for the company’s products is growing worldwide, and northern Kentucky provides a central location with a good workforce and transportation system.

"We will be able to improve our service to our customers with this facility in northern Kentucky," Angell said.

The first two production lines of the new plant, which will initially employ 60-75 people, are scheduled to start by the end of 2013.

The company expects the facility to be fully operational in the first quarter of 2014.

Founded in 1932, Newly Weds Foods is private, family-owned manufacturer and distributor of food ingredients for the food processing and food service industries.

It currently has 15 North American plants and ten international production facilities, and employs more than 2,400 people worldwide.

In September 2012, Newly Weds Foods announced its purchase of the industrial food coating business of Washington-based Continental Mills, for an undisclosed sum.

The business primarily focuses on starch and flour-based coatings and batters for potato and poultry applications, along with other protein and vegetable type substrates.