Published November 8, 2021

Food and Beverage Manufacturers Expand with New Construction

Major brands like PepsiCo and Nestle plan to translate increasing sales during the COVID-19 pandemic into expansions.


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Green Mountain Beverage announced in June it was expanding its canning capacity six-fold, from the ability to do 100 cans per minute to 600 cans per minute. The expansion will be added on to the company’s existing facility, which features state-of-the-art equipment, and is expected to be completed by January.

Richard Branch, chief economist at Dodge Data & Analytics, said in the first seven months of 2021, construction activity in the manufacturing sector was up 40% over 2020. Food and beverage is one of the three most active business areas in industrial construction right now, he said. Read the full article here.

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