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AMPI to close Dawson plant

AMPI is going to close its plant in Dawson, Minnesota at the end of the year. The plant makes cheese sauces and puddings and employs 130 people. CEO Ed Welch says “the AMPI management team is working to ease the transition for Dawson plant employees, providing resources needed to find alternative employment. That includes encouraging employees to apply for positions at other AMPI manufacturing facilities.”

AMPI will move the producers’ milk to other co-op facilities using the same trucking company. AMPI has plants in Minnesota, northern Iowa and South Dakota.

AMPI recently announced the sale of its aseptic or shelf-stable dairy products line to Bay Valley Foods of Oak Brook, Illinois. Welch says the co-op wants to focus on a core product line of cheese, butter and powdered dairy products. The Dawson plant is the only AMPI facility making the shelf-stable dairy products.

AMPI purchased the former soybean processing plant in 1982 and will try to sell the 200,000 square-foot facility and water treatment plant.

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