Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.- Lehigh Valley

WFMZ-TV69 Video Report (04/29/2014)- "Officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday April 29th, 2014 at the new beverage facility in Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County."

"This video was created for their annual meeting to show
the growers what their $100 million investment created."


Video Courtesy- "FireRock Productions"


In addition to the production building on May 1st they also held a grand opening for their one million square foot distribution facility in Kutztown. This center will ship about 40% of all the products made by Ocean Spray globally.

The company received a $182,700 grant in addition to a $3.15 million loan from the state of Pennsylvania. The distribution center is located within a larger business development in a TIF zone.

On the downside...
Bordentown, NJ (where they came from) may be looking at sewer rate hikes after Ocean Spray's departure. About 138 employees were displaced by the shutdown. 100 of which are expected to make the move to the new Lehigh Valley faculties. SOURCE: 'Central Jersey.com'

I can't find the expected water usage of the new plant. However in 2013 each day on average 17 million gallons of water was already being drawn from the Little Lehigh Creek, Schantz Spring and Crystal Spring. I'm not sure how that will play out for us if it should be a dry summer.

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