Chobani, the American meals firm specialising in strained yoghurt, broke floor on a $1.2 billion (€1 billion) plant in Rome, New York.
The challenge follows a $500 million (€438 million) enlargement in Twin Falls, Idaho introduced in March 2025 and positions the corporate to fulfill rising demand for its dairy merchandise.
The brand new manufacturing facility is predicted to generate over 1,000 full-time jobs.
Manufacturing Capability
Situated on a former Griffiss Air Power Base web site of 150 acres, the 1.4 million-square-foot (130,064 sq. metres) facility will accommodate as much as 28 manufacturing traces able to processing roughly 12 million kilos (5.4 million litres) of milk per day.
As soon as operational at full capability, Chobani will buy an estimated six billion kilos (2.7 billion kilograms) of uncooked milk per yr from New York State dairy farms, up from its present annual procurement of over one billion kilos (453 million kilograms).
Chobani plans to collaborate with native farmers, companies, schools, universities, authorities leaders and group organisations to foster innovation, practice expert staff and stimulate financial development past the plant’s perimeter.
‘The Good Place’
Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and chief govt officer of Chobani, acknowledged, “New York is the place Chobani’s journey started. It was the proper spot to start out Chobani twenty years in the past, and it is the good place to proceed our story.
“Working with devoted dairy farmers and the resilient group, we constructed one thing really particular — one thing larger than the meals we make. We ignited a motion towards higher meals made with coronary heart, ardour, and solely the highest-quality elements.”
“Through this partnership with Chobani, we’re revitalising Upstate New York’s manufacturing sector one spoonful at a time,” added Governor Kathy Hochul.
Hochul continued, “Chobani has been a serious employer within the Mohawk Valley for many years, and this huge new $1.2 billion funding will carry greater than 1,000 good-paying jobs to Oneida County — the most important pure meals manufacturing funding in American historical past.”
