Westrock expands facility capabilities, to enter joint venture with Select Milk

Westrock Coffee Company announced the expansion of capabilities at its Extract and Ready-to-Drink facility in Conway, Arkansas, and its entry into a non-binding letter of intent with Select Milk Producers to establish a joint venture to build and operate an extended shelf life and aseptic, multi-serve bottle facility to be co-located at Select Milk’s facility in Littlefield, Texas. Commenting on the facility expansion, Westrock Coffee’s CEO and co-founder, Scott Ford, remarked, “As we near completion of the Extract and RTD facility in Conway, Arkansas, we made the decision to expand our extract and concentration capabilities so that as we add additional lines in the future, we can do so without having to impact the existing operations of the facility. In addition, we have expanded our multi-serve bottle capacities by adding cold-chain capability to our facility. Together, these additions better position us to respond to existing customer demand for extended shelf life and multi-serve bottles and ensure we can grow our capabilities in the future without disrupting operations.” Commenting on the letter of intent with Select Milk, Ford stated, “We expect the joint venture with Select Milk will allow us to meet the needs of current and future customers for coffee-based RTD and concentrate multi-serve formats that include either traditional dairy or plant-based milks.” The joint venture would construct and operate multi-serve bottle lines inside a new facility Select Milk intends to build in Littlefield, Texas. Westrock expects to produce and provide the joint venture with coffee extracts and concentrates from its Conway facility and Select Milk expects to provide the milk from its Littlefield facility. Westrock and Select Milk anticipate the first product to ship from these lines in Q1 of 2026.”