DYERSVILLE, IOWA — Ancient Makes Milling has announced plans to devote $26.5 million to relocate and extend its puffed grains ability in Dyersville. Historical Brand names is a producer of organic and natural and non-GMO puffed grains for use in cereal, granola, energy bars and plant-primarily based alternatives.
As element of the investment, Historic Makes programs to develop a new 92,000-sq.-foot plant in Dyersville to substitute the facility it obtained in the town from The Andersons, Inc. back in September 2020. The Andersons had obtained the facility in 2018 as portion of its acquisition of Nu-Earth Foodstuff from Tella Atlantic Holdings.
“Current enlargement is actually pushed by exceptionally high demand for what we are at present doing, which is gluten-cost-free, allergen-no cost, organic and natural and non-GMO puffed grains,” said Patrick Hemminger, president of Historic Brands. “And so we are at or in the vicinity of potential on potential-constricted tools. The equipment we have now does not present the capacity for us to up grade or to improve ability utilization. So that genuinely caused us to choose a powerful glimpse at techniques we could improve that capability and the availability of our substantial-good quality ingredients and abilities, and we truly took a solid glance at that at the conclusion of Q4 of 2021.”
Mr. Hemminger claimed existing capacity is about 2.5 million lbs of puffed grains per calendar year, a whole that will ramp up appreciably with the enlargement.
“We’re bringing in two new superior-volume traces from our products spouse in Europe,” he discussed. “So we will be bringing in two independent strains and decommissioning our recent line… By bringing in these two traces, our gluten-totally free, allergen-cost-free potential will increase to approximately 10 million lbs for every year. And then we are including the capability to puff gluten-based mostly, or wheat-based mostly grains, as effectively, and that capacity is going to be upwards of 20 million lbs per calendar year.
“So the growth is two-fold. We’ll be rising all round capability, but also escalating our portfolio to include puffed wheats.”
Mr. Hemminger claimed that though the company has been giving puffed wheats due to the fact its launch in January 2016, it has been importing a completed fantastic from other production partners that employ the exact form of gear in Europe.
“There is a large amount of demand for these puffed wheats, puffed barley, puffed rye, puffed Kamut wheat, and we have been importing that over the past six years, but now it is time to place a stake in the ground and begin processing these gluten-based mostly grains as very well correct here in the Midwest,” he said.
Mr. Hemminger said Historical Brands’ present clientele and partners enjoy the present-day facility and its focus on gluten-totally free and best-nine-allergen-absolutely free output, but he’s enthusiastic about what the new facility has to give, including a mezzanine that offers the new place 104,000-sq.-ft of place.
“We purposely intended that as a facility within of a facility,” he reported. “We are fully segregating the one particular processing bay from the other processing bay, and that is all the way by means of the warehouse. One of all those processing bays is heading to be gluten-no cost, top rated-nine-allergen-free with separate dock doors, individual air handling systems. So we’re having a truly powerful, purposely created stance to defend the integrity of people gluten-no cost, major-9-allergen-absolutely free characteristics. And then a fully different bay for any of the grains that are puffed based.
“We’re remaining pretty acutely aware of the characteristics that our recent client partners get pleasure from although remaining in a position to structurally offer the new portfolio of puffed gluten-dependent grains,” he reported.
Mr. Hemminger mentioned the style of the venture is in development and the organization hopes to shift grime in June. Machines is predicted to arrive in the fourth quarter with setup getting place soon right after, which puts the enterprise on speed for startup in the late to start with quarter or early second quarter of 2023, he claimed. He additional that Historical Brands originally programs to run the current facility in parallel with the new facility to be certain a smooth changeover of operations.
“We are uniquely fired up about the progress up to this stage,” he claimed.
