PGP International has broken ground on a $17.2m manufacturing and distribution facility in Indiana, US, as part of its plan to boost production of speciality food ingredients and additives.
The 70,000ft² facility, which will be located in Vanderburgh Industrial Park, Evansville, will produce two products - rice crisps used in cereal, nutritional and energy bars, and an ingredient that is used in speciality animal feed.
The facility will be operational in summer 2013 and is expected to create 41 new jobs. PGP International plans to begin hiring production and support workers for the new facility later in 2012.
The new facility marks the company's fifth manufacturing plant in the US; it currently has facilities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, California and Missouri.
California-based PGP International, a part of ABF Ingredients, has two units - a grain division that produces a wide range of protein crisps including soy, rice, pea and whey, rice flours and blends, and a dairy division that produces whey protein-based ingredients including concentrates, isolates, hydrolysates and lactose.
