Portland Foundation To Reopen Shuttered Bangor Milk Processing Plant Closed In 2013
May 25, 2017 | 1 min to read
BANGOR, Maine — Maine’s biggest cheesemaker will take over the former Grants Dairy plant as part of a plan to bring as many as 50 jobs to Bangor.
Pineland Farms Inc. will consolidate its cheese production operations in New Gloucester and Mars Hill at the former Milk Street milk processing and bottling plant. Renovations are underway, said Erik K. Hayward, senior vice president at the Libra Foundation, the Portland-based nonprofit business incubator that owns the dairy company, and plans to spend as much as $5 million on the project.
The pending $115 million sale to Bob Evans Foods of the Mars Hill-based Pineland Farms Potato Co. — where Libra also manufactured cheese — forced Libra to relocate its cheese production operations to the Bangor facility, Hayward said.
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