Hiland Dairy Foods Co. is expanding its Tyler, Texas, plant, spending more than $100 million to add 90,000 sq. ft. of processing, laboratory, filling, casing, palletizing, load-out and storage areas. It’s expected to be complete by the first quarter of 2026.
The expansion will triple current production of milk, buttermilk, heavy whipped cream and more milk products to service east Texas and north Louisiana. It also will more than double its workforce from 74 to 154.
Original parts of the plant date back to 1927, and in 2017 it became part of Hiland Dairy, which is a farmer-owned dairy foods company headquartered in Springfield, Mo., with more than 4,000 employees across Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.
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