Food colors and flavors producer Sensient plans to invest up to $250 million to expand its largest natural color plant in St. Louis, the company announced last month.
Sensient Food Colors, a division of Milwaukee-based Sensient Technologies, held a groundbreaking ceremony for “Project Prism,” which officials said would “support the food and beverage industry's rapid transition away from artificial colors.”
"Sensient has taken a defining role in accelerating the industry's transition to natural color solutions,” Sensient Colors President Steve Morris said in a statement. “We are reinforcing our leadership position by making significant investments in capacity and infrastructure to facilitate the natural color conversion in the United States.”
The project will add 28,800 square feet of “specialized processing and production capacity” to the plant’s current 500,000 square feet, officials said.
