Nestle Plant Damaged in Fire and Other Food Industry News

Powder & Bulk Solids highlights recent food and beverage manufacturing news you may have missed.

John S. Forrester, former Managing Editor

April 1, 2022

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Nestle frozen foods manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, AR was heavily damaged in a fire that started on March 16 and burned into the following day, television news station KAIT reported.

Crews were dispatched to the scene at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and worked into Thursday morning to contain the flames, the broadcaster said. Workers managed to evacuate the structure without incident.

Jonesboro Fire Chief Kevin Miller told KAIT that a sizeable portion of the structure received “significant damage.”

The cause of the blaze is unknown.

Click further to view some other developments in the food and beverage industry that recently captured headlines.

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John S. Forrester

former Managing Editor, Powder & Bulk Solids

John S. Forrester is the former managing editor of Powder & Bulk Solids.

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