Blue Diamond Growers, a cooperative whose growers include many in Tehama County and other parts of the north state, has broken ground on a new manufacturing plant.
The first phase of the project in Turlock will provide about 200,000 square feet for manufacturing and delivering new almond products and is scheduled to be completed in May 2013, according to a news release.
The three-phased project will eventually take up about 500,000 square feet of building space on the 88-acre property, the release stated.
Blue Diamond made its last major investment in 1968 with its Salida plant. Since then, California's almond production has increased from 140 million pounds to about 2 million pounds annually, officials from the cooperative explained.
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