Amway Breaks Ground on $38M Botanical Plant
Executives of direct-selling giant Amway recently met with elected officials, and area business and community leaders in Quincy, Wash. to break ground on a $38 million botanical concentrate manufacturing plant, the first of its kind in the region.
Built on 12 acres Amway purchased in the Port of Quincy, the 48,000-square-foot facility is projected to create 30 jobs when operations begin in 2014. It will process botanicals from the company's nearby Trout Lake Farm operations, the largest certified organic herb farm in North America.
Processed botanicals such as blueberry, Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea angustifolia, oregano, peppermint and nettle, will be supplied to Amway global manufacturing operations. These plant concentrates will be used in some of the company's top products, including NUTRILITE DOUBLE X Vitamin/Mineral/Phytonutrient, NUTRILITE Daily Multivitamin Multimineral and NUTRILITE Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables tablets.
The Quincy facility is part of a $185 million U.S. manufacturing expansion Amway announced earlier this year to meet growing global demand for its top-selling NUTRILITE brand of vitamin, mineral and dietary supplements. Nutrition product sales in 2011 accounted for 45 percent, or $4.7 billion, of Amway sales.
Amway is also working on three other manufacturing projects as part of a U.S. manufacturing expansion:
· A new $81 million nutrition soft gels and tablet manufacturing operation at the company's Spaulding Avenue site in Ada, Michigan, is expected to create up to 200 jobs over a three-year period.
· A $24 million nutrition powder products plant unveiled in 2012 at the company's World Headquarters is expected to create 50 new jobs in Ada, Michigan.
· A $42 million project in Buena Park, California, includes a new granulation facility to support tablet manufacturing; new research and development facilities and pilot laboratories; and a two-story professional office building.
The Amway facility in Quincy will replace the current extraction and concentration operation in Lakeview, Calif.