Amway to open $21.7 million food manufacturing facility in Ada
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- Published on Monday, 31 October 2011 11:16
- Written by Erin Albanese, Grand Rapids Press
ADA TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN — A new $21.7 million advanced food manufacturing facility, the first on Amway Corp.’s Fulton Street site, is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2012.
The 119,000-square-foot facility, including laboratory space, will produce powdered drink mixes for Amway’s Nutrilite brand. Equipment for the plant, currently under construction, will come from a Riverside, Calif., facility where the products are now made, said Eric Van Dellen, Amway’s sustainability program manager.
The Township Board unanimously approved a 12-year, 50 percent industrial facilities tax exemption to Access Business Group LLC for the facility with an estimated $6.4 million in personal property and $15.36 million in real property costs.
The 55-foot-tall addition to the manufacturing plant on Fulton Street will accommodate protein drink powder equipment, and warehouse space will be converted to production facilities.
“We are trying to take what we own and upgrade it into a more advanced manufacturing state and install it here,” Van Dellen said.
He said the plant will come online in four phases, with 50 new employees planned at first. Jobs have already been posted internally.
