Blue Diamond Invests in Expansion of Award-Winning Turlock Manufacturing Plant

Blue Diamond Growers, a nonprofit grower-owned cooperative and the world's leading processor and marketer of almonds, begins expansion of its award-winning processing facility in Turlock, California. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Tuesday at the 200,000-square-foot manufacturing plant recognized as the 2014 Plant of the Year by Food Engineering Magazine. The new addition is part of Blue Diamond's continued plans to expand value-added product lines and deliver the innovations of new almond products worldwide.
The 52,000-square-foot building will be the latest construction of the three-phase project that will eventually yield a total of about 500,000 square feet of building space over the next nine years. This phase of the project is scheduled to be completed in Spring 2020 and will accommodate the growth of the cooperative's business. The expansion consists of new automated processing and packaging equipment that promote Blue Diamond's commitment to manufacturing excellence.