Plant-based food producer SunOpta has unveiled its new 65,000-square-foot global headquarters and innovation centre in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
SunOpta says that its new home was designed to “accelerate the speed of innovation, foster collaboration and model the company’s sustainability heritage”. The site, which features a pilot plant and a dramatically expanded research and development centre, will allow the company to increase its offerings across all categories.
Last year, SunOpta invested in its Allentown, Pennsylvania, plant in a move to expand its plant-based manufacturing capacity, and the company aims to double sales of its plant-based products by 2025. The producer also acquired dairy-free milk brands Dream and WestSoy from Hain Celestial in 2021.
“Our growth ambitions required this move. We’ve grown our plant-based business by more than $100 million over the last two years through a focus on innovation and new customer development and we expect this pace of growth to continue,” said Joe Ennen, CEO of SunOpta.
“This new facility, with a full-scale pilot plant and a huge expansion of the research and development space, will allow us to aggressively develop new products and new customers.”
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