Amway will break ground for $38 million facility

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Amway will break ground for $38 million facility

By Mike Irwin
World staff writer

Monday, August 27, 2012

QUINCY — Groundbreaking for Amway’s new $38 million herb processing plant will take place here Wednesday with speeches, a tree planting and lunch.

Kick-off for construction of the facility will start at 11:30 a.m. on the factory’s site at 10448 NW Road R. Lunch hosted by the Quincy Historical Society will start at 12:30 p.m. at the Reiman Simmons House, 415 F St. SW.

Scheduled to attend are a handful of local and company dignitaries, including Port of Quincy Commissioner Brian Kuest, Quincy Mayor Jim Hemberry, Senator Linda Evans-Parlette, state Department of Agriculture Director Dan Newhouse and Amway Vice-president George Calvert.

When completed in 2014, the 48,000-square-foot processing plant plant is expected to create 30 or more jobs. Future expansion on a adjacent 15 acres could bring another 50 jobs.

The plant — an “extraction and concentration facility,” according to the company — will process crops from Trout Lake Farm, an organic grower of medicinal herbs and teas with acreage and a milling operation located south of Ephrata. The farm’s head office is in Trout Lake.

The new Quincy plant is part of Amway’s $185 million plan to restructure its supply chain by moving processing facilities closer to growers. The processed herbs and teas are used in Amway’s NuriLite vitamins and dietary supplements.

Mike Irwin: 6651179

irwin@wenatcheeworld.com

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lonedog3 8 months, 3 weeks ago

AWSOME! kudos for Quincy and their port for working and developing the friendly enviroment that brings large companies to Grant County.

grecoehs73 8 months, 3 weeks ago

AWSOME! When are you getting a job up here, Joe.I've lived up here more than 20 yrs. Got a job in Quincy,moved up here,raised kid's,kid's went to public school,bought home, payed taxes, shopped in Quincy when we could. Oh and Joe are you going to live in Quincy or are you like most the people working in Quincy.Rush in , go to work, maybe buy gas,or a subway sandwich at lunch and then commute elsewhere.Mostly towards Wenatchee.Are you going to buy a home in southwest Quincy. We have a number of very nice brand new never been lived in home's for sale at a very cheap price, that most of us in Quincy couldn't afford.Joe can though, cause he's gonna live here.We just give kudo's for all the good planning that has brought us a intersection at rd. R and hiway 28 that is a total nightmare.School busses,semi-trucks full,con agra worker's,apple industry worker's,school employee's,celite worker,s,high tech industry worker's and many more all meeting at one intersection with no traffic light. Yes, Joe kudo's all around too this shining example of good planning. I know let's throw in a few more huge boxes with barbwire fences and enough unmuffled diesel power to keep them going just in case it gets cold in Quincy and the power goes out.It could work out just like the intersection, bad planning.

grecoehs73 8 months, 3 weeks ago

BTW Joe its awesome dude.

grecoehs73 8 months, 3 weeks ago

You know what I like most about Quincy, it's the people who live here. They respect Quincy,they want Quincy to be a better place to live not a crawling map of concrete boxes. We can have both,all I'am saying is plan first,then build taking in the all the good and bad and not sell us another Wenatchee arena center or any other of your bad idea's. We don't need any more commmuter's we need citzen's.

grecoehs73 8 months, 3 weeks ago

citizen's I mean

lonedog3 8 months, 3 weeks ago

wow! who would have thought giving kudos for the quincy port for bringing in major companys with major jobs would have set off thant rant.

lonedog3 8 months, 3 weeks ago

the main reasons that grant county is getting the major companies is the access to a major interstate to transport their products. then they have cheaper land, cheaper power, lower taxes ect ect. Wenatchee is now pretty much land locked and Douglas county has no water since the mayor of east wenatchee sued and got it so "his" water cannot be used in the county. With a shift of money to a more sensible les expensive approach Grant county will have a fantastic airport capable of landing every plane made.