Work is expected to begin later this year in southern Arizona on the construction of a new beverage production facility that will belong to the more than 150-year-old Nestle company.
The facility will go up on a 150-acre site in the city of Glendale and is expected to cost around $675 million to build.
According to reports, the anticipated 630,000 square foot plant will house Nestle’s popular Coffee-Mature creamers line.
The plant will also produce Starbucks-branded creamers. In 2018 Nestle and Starbucks formed what was called a “global coffee alliance” allowing the older company to launch a variety of coffee products under the Starbucks brand.
With revenues in excess of $84 billion in 2020, Nestles, launched in 1866 in Cham, Switzerland, has 14 production facilities across the country. The new Glendale facility, according to Nestle officials, will allow for greater access to markets across the West.
As planned, the facility will house a water recycling process. The company has additionally said that it plans to use 100% renewable energy at the plant by the year 2025.
It is expected that work on the facility, on a site allowing for future expansion, will be completed sometime in 2024.
To date, Nestle owns more than 2,000 brands internationally, just over two dozen of which are coffee products.
Noting the company’s extraordinary longevity, the London Observer has remarked that Nestles originally had a product that everyone wanted: “The world’s first formula baby milk, made from dried milk and sugar and sold without frills as Farine Lactee Henri Nestle.”
By Garry Boulard
