Vending

Mount Franklin Foods expands candy making plant, to add 400 jobs

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March 10, 2022

Mount Franklin Foods, a manufacturer of branded, contract and private label confectionary, nuts, snacks and foodservice products, has broken ground on a 280,000-square-foot expansion to its candy manufacturing facility in San Jeronimo — a port of entry in the Mexican state of Chihuahua across the U.S. border from Santa Teresa, New Mexico and close to the company headquarters in El Paso, Texas, according to a press release.

The addition to the existing facility will more than double both square footage and capacity when it opens in January of 2024 and will bring more than 400 new jobs to the area.