Starbucks Nears Completion of $172 Million Coffee Plant in South Carolina

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) (Seattle, Washington) is on schedule to churn out ready-to-serve coffee products from its plant in Augusta, South Carolina, by August of this year. Under construction since summer 2012, the new plant's packaging operations started last October, with manufacturing operations slated for late summer.

The Augusta plant will be Starbucks' fifth manufacturing facility in the U.S. It will produce a range of soluble products, such as VIA Ready Brew, and ingredients for Frappuccino and other ready-to-drink beverages. The facility comprises a 160,000-square-foot, LEED-certified building, with the capability to produce up to 4,000 metric tons annually.

Stellar Group Incorporated (Jacksonville, Florida) has design-build responsibility for the project.

Industrial Info's database of active capital and maintenance expenditures in the Food and Beverage Industry across North America and the Sugar Processing Industry and Water Desalination Segment worldwide shows current expenditures of $50 billion and more than 3,000 active projects. The North American portion comes out to more than 1,900 active projects that total more than $29.5 billion.

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