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Cheese Makers-Nuestro Queso, LLC
cruelty, using its position as one of the leading Hispanic cheese manufacturers to advocate for animal care.
This dedication to company values is backed by serious investment on the ground. The company’ s plant in Kent, Illinois now spans more than 75,000 square feet, and it has just completed a multi-phase expansion worth over $ 30 million. New loading docks, coolers and storage capacity sit beside upgraded cheesemaking machinery, a dedicated test kitchen and new offices and employee facilities. Investment of this magnitude signals far more than routine maintenance – it ensures readiness for sustained growth in a category that, until recently, most manufacturers treated as a sideline. What sets the operation apart is how much of it happens in-house; rather than outsourcing stages of production, Hispanic Cheese Makers runs fully integrated manufacturing and conversion processes under one roof, giving the business tighter
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