Pineland Farms Potato Co., Inc. dba Naturally Potatoes broke ground on a $7.5 million expansion to its Mars Hill, Maine, headquarters and potato processing plant. This expansion is in addition to a $1 million packaging line upgrade that is nearly complete.
The expansion includes 12,000 square feet of dry storage, a new water blancher, new mashed potato kettles, additional potato packaging equipment, new employee cafeteria and additional space for a cheese packaging line. In the process, an employee parking area will be constructed as well as systems to control rainwater runoff. The expansion also doubles the refrigerated warehousing area and more than doubles the product cooling capacity.