SunOpta spent $125 million on the 285,000 square foot plant. Combined, they’ve spent $200 million in plant-based production in the last three years. The company says it can expand to 400,000 square feet when the demand is there. SunOpta aims to double its plant-based business by 2025. The new facility will manufacture SunOpta’s entire suite of plant-based milks and creamers, including its Sown, Dream, and West Life brands, along with tea and other products.

The plant means 125 jobs for Midlothian, on the southern boundary of DFW. The city and Ellis County approved a $7.5 million incentives package to help snag the plant, including a grant from Midlothian Economic Development and an eight-year tax abatement.

Why Midlothian? SunOpta’s Lauren McNamara had this, “In combination with SunOpta’s plant locations in California, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania, the Texas location creates a competitively advantaged and strategic ‘diamond-shaped’ national network for national distribution.”