Westrock Coffee Breaks Ground On New Arkansas Facility

Westrock Coffee broke ground on its new, state-of-the-art, roasting to ready-to-drink facility that will allow the company to produce a host of coffee and tea products sold in a variety of formats.

According to the company, the 524,000 square foot facility in Conway, Ark., will be the largest roasting to ready-to-drink (RTD) operation of its kind. The facility will offer space for the development, production, and distribution of Westrock’s coffee, tea, and RTD products, including ready-to-drink cans, glass bottles, multi-serve plastic bottles, and bag-in-box (BiB) solutions. The space will also incorporate a premiere product development lab, enabling the company to create, test, and produce new beverage solutions.

“As an industry leader, Westrock Coffee provides beverage solutions to the most distinguished brands around the world, and this new facility enables us to further our ability to deliver the most innovative solutions to our customers in a variety of formats,” said Scott Ford, Westrock Coffee CEO and co-founder.

Joe T. Ford, co-founder and chairman of Westrock Coffee added, “It is particularly meaningful to me to have the nation’s largest roasting to ready-to-drink packaging facility in Conway, my hometown. Starting these upgrades marks a significant milestone in our company’s history to further accomplish our mission.”

The Conway facility is one of eight global Westrock sites providing coffee, tea, flavors, extracts, and ingredients solutions sourced from 35 origins around the world.