Hostess Brands Wraps Up $30 Million Expansion of Kansas Facility, $20 Million More to Follow

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Hostess Brands LLC has completed a $30 million expansion project at its flagship bakery production facility in Emporia, Kansas. Operations at the 258,000-square-foot Emporia site now consist of five production lines.

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The project included the installation of a new Auto-Bake (Woodridge, Illinois) production line, complete with upgraded packaging and palletizing equipment, plus a 36,000-square-foot warehouse addition.

Hostess also is developing a $20 million project that calls for the installation of a new Twinkie production line. Construction is slated to begin later this year, and the new line is expected to be operational mid-year 2015.

Hostess is owned by Apollo Global Management LLC (New York, New York) and Metropoulos & Company (Greenwich, Connecticut).

Industrial Info's online project database of capital and maintenance projects shows more than $535 million in project spending plans at food and beverage sites in Kansas. Individual projects range in value from $1 million to $152 million.

Industrial Info's database of active capital and maintenance expenditures in the Food & Beverage Industry across North America and the Sugar Processing Industry and Water Desalination Segment worldwide shows current expenditures of $49 billion and more than 2,900 active projects. The North American portion comes out to more than 1,750 active projects that total more than $28.9 billion.

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