Melaleuca recently completed construction on two major projects—a 37,000-square-foot powder plant and a 223,000 square-foot manufacturing and shipping facility—an indication of the company’s continued growth and expansion.
“Since we opened our doors in 1985, Melaleuca’s vision has been to build a business to last a lifetime,” Melaleuca CEO Frank L. VanderSloot says. “These two projects are investments to ensure that this vision becomes a reality.”
This spring, Melaleuca completed work on its mammoth 223,000-square-foot state-of-the-art Distribution Center in Knoxville, Tenn. This new facility’s completion will allow the existing 170,000- foot production and distribution center to narrow its focus to production. Using a 365-foot enclosed tunnel, the older facility will produce the products and then transport them to the new Distribution Facility to be packaged and shipped. Where the existing facilities were shipping more than 300,000 packages per month to locations east of the Mississippi River and in eastern Canada, the new facility will be capable of shipping three times that amount when fully staffed—900,000 packages per month!
Two-thousand miles from Knoxville and just a few hundred feet west of the Distribution Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho, the new 37,000-square-foot Powder Plant is already bustling with energy as employees formulate, mix and package Melaleuca’s powder nutrition products. In March, the plant began producing Sustain® Berry, Lemon, and Orange on-the-go packets and canisters; Attain® Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla shake packs; and ProFlex™, Access® and FiberWise® drinks.
With the plant’s opening came dozens of new staff positions that are welcome in a tight job market. Already known as one of the largest and best employers in Southeast Idaho, Melaleuca uses the new Powder Plant to employ researchers, machine operators and other manufacturing and production personnel. Melaleuca didn’t borrow a dime to complete the two projects, which, together, cost more than $26 million.
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