Hershey Foods Expanding Pennsylvania Confections Plant

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Hershey Foods Corporation (NYSE:HSY) (Hershey, Pennsylvania) is expanding its chocolates and confections manufacturing plant in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. To make room for production of a new proprietary product line, Hershey is adding about 29,000 square feet of building space to the 30 year old plant, located in the Humboldt Industrial Park about 60 miles northeast of the company's corporate headquarters in Hershey.

The company selected Mid-State Incorporated (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) as the general contractor to construct the building shell and mezzanines. A separate firm will be selected to install the new production lines. Currently, the building foundation is being poured at the site and the new addition should be ready for equipment installations around May or June of 2005.

This estimated $30 million expansion is expected to be completed and fully operational and producing the new product by August 2005.

Hershey Foods Corporation is a leading snack food company and the largest North American manufacturer of quality chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products. The company has sales revenues of over $4 billion annually and more than 14,000 employees worldwide.

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