HP Hood LLC, will shutter the Kemps Foods plant in Lancaster, Pa., later this year as it consolidates its east coast ice cream operations at the plant in Suffield, Conn.
The Pennsylvania facility processes ice cream, drinks and frozen desserts. Fluid processing will close in April, with ice cream manufacturing shutting down in July, Hood says. The dedicated frozen dessert plant in Suffield is undergoing an expansion that will give it an annual capacity of more than 20 million gals, and a staff of 225.