Keurig Dr Pepper Shuttering Windsor, Virginia, Roasting Facility

Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) will close its Windsor, Va., roasting plant by the end of the 2024 calendar year, according to local news reports. The closure was confirmed to the news outlet by both KDP and county officials.

KDP told the news outlet that the timing of an expansion of the company’s Spartanburg County, S.C., facility is aligned with the closure of the plant, and that a rebalancing of the production capacity in the region has led to the Windsor plant being shut down. The latest Spartanburg County facility expansion was announced in October 2023.

This is not the first closure of a Keurig roasting facility this year, as KDP announced in the spring that its Williston, Vt., facility would close, and production would shift to a nearby facility in Essex Junction, Vt.

More than 375 employees would be impacted by the closure of the 330,000-sq.-ft. Windsor plant, which was opened in 2012. KDP will support its employees through the transition with severance packages and career planning assistance, it said.

The news report noted that when the plant opened, Keurig pledged to invest at least $180 million and hire at least 800 full-time workers by the end of 2016 in exchange for tax breaks — both goals that were not met in those four years, leading the county to cut the tax incentives offered.