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Sensient plans $16 million expansion in St. Louis

Sensient Technologies Corp. of Milwaukee said it plans to invest $16 million at its Color Group headquarters in St. Louis.

Sensient will build an additional 25,000-square-foot facility dedicated to natural colors production. Sensient acquired property at 2620 Elliott for the expansion in January for $300,000 from the Elliott Avenue Redevelopment Corp.

Most of the world’s largest food and beverage manufacturers use Sensient colors and flavors to make their household brand-name food and beverage products.

The plant will be the largest and most advanced natural colors plant in North America. The building will include major new equipment for natural color emulsions, dispersions and liquid colors.


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Jeff Vanderlou neighborhood business off of N. Jefferson expanding into natural vs. petroleum-based food dyes:

The plant expansion project will add 28,800 square feet of specialized processing and production capacity to the existing 500,000-square-foot facility in the city’s Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood. It will also create over 200 new jobs.

Morris said this is the second expansion for natural color production at the St. Louis site and will cost about $90 million. Sensient is also expanding five of its sites around the world and investing in new infrastructure and new equipment to bolstervcthe company's capacity to create natural dyes and flavors, he said. 

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This is just west of the NGA site.