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Seeing how things are made is pretty cool, especially when said things are Texas-based companies that have grown to national or even international popularity (think Dr Pepper). From beer to blown glass, here are nine incredibly interesting factory tours you can take right here in Texas.

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This looks really cool and something my girl scout troop would be interested in! I called the FritoLay headquarters, and the woman in PR was not familiar with this opportunity. Would you mind share the name of the person you worked with, or at least the division so I can reach out again? Thank you!

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Frito-Lay to Create 160 Jobs with Rosenberg, Texas, Plant Expansion

June 8, 2021

Rosenberg Site Investments Now Surpass $330 Million.

PLANO, Texas , June 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo and leading snack manufacturer, along with Fort Bend County , today announced a $200 million investment at its Rosenberg, Texas , site. The investment will add two manufacturing lines for Funyuns and tortilla chips, as well as increase capacity in its warehouse to enhance capabilities and enable future growth. Anticipated to be complete by 2023, the project will provide 160 new, full-time jobs.

The Frito-Lay Rosenberg facility today employs more than 750 full-time plant and fleet associates and produces more than 117 million pounds of snacks annually.

"We've called Rosenberg home for nearly 40 years. Throughout that time, the support of Fort Bend County has helped us invest in the right areas so that we can continue to grow and provide jobs to the community," said Laura Maxwell , senior vice president of supply chain, PepsiCo Foods North America. "The Rosenberg site has the largest footprint of any Frito-Lay facility in Texas , producing snacks for Texas , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Kansas and Georgia , and several other parts of the country when we hit times of peak demand. We thank Fort Bend County for bringing investments like this to life."

This is the second investment Frito-Lay has made since 2019 to the Rosenberg site when the company announced a $138 million investment that added a new Cheetos line, new seasoning and packaging equipment and a warehouse expansion, set to be complete late 2021.

"Frito-Lay has been a long-time partner in Fort Bend County , coming to Rosenberg in 1982 with about 100 employees," said Vincent M. Morales, Jr. , commissioner, Fort Bend County Commissioner's Office, Precinct One. "They have expanded in Rosenberg over the years, choosing to grow their footprint in our community, and now have more than 700 employees – and that number will go up with this latest expansion. They are active corporate citizens, and one of our larger employers. We are proud of our partnership with Frito-Lay and thank them for their investment in Fort Bend ."

Ongoing Commitment to the Community With Frito-Lay's continued commitment to the communities where its associates live and work, the company has programs to give back in the Houston area, including its Building the Future Together initiative in partnership with Feed the Children. The program provided donations to five Houston -area high schools during the 2020-2021 school year, supplementing 33,000 meals and providing monthly deliveries of other items such as school supplies, snacks, books, hand sanitizer and personal care items. In addition, The PepsiCo Foundation program to support Black and Hispanic aspiring and graduating community college students has partnered locally with Houston Community College , providing more than 200 scholarships over the next two years.

For more information on Frito-Lay, visit FritoLay.com .

About Frito-Lay North America Frito-Lay North America is the $18 billion convenient foods division of PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP ), which is headquartered in Purchase, N.Y. Learn more about Frito-Lay at the corporate website,  http:www.fritolay.com/  and on Twitter  http://www.twitter.com/fritolay .

About PepsiCo PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $70 billion in net revenue in 2020, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker, Tropicana and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 23 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Convenient Foods and Beverages by Winning with Purpose. "Winning with Purpose" reflects our ambition to win sustainably in the marketplace and embed purpose into all aspects of our business strategy and brands. For more information, visit  www.pepsico.com

About Fort Bend County Fort Bend County , 25 minutes from Houston's central business district, is the tenth largest county in Texas . Over 900 square miles and one of the fastest growing counties in the U.S., Fort Bend is expected to reach 1 million people in the next five years. The most diverse county in the state, Fort Bend is an inclusive community that leads the Greater Houston region in educational attainment, diversity, and median household income. With a strong commercial base, access to markets, a pro-business culture, and exceptional quality of life, Fort Bend continues to attract commercial and residential development across the county. To learn more about Fort Bend County , please visit our website at www.FortBendCounty.com .

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Flashback : Dallas

3800 Main: Fritos Central — 1947

by Paula Bosse

Last week I came across the above photo of old cars parked in front of a Fritos building of some sort, and I wondered where it had been. After a little bit of digging, I found out that it was near Fair Park — in the 3800 block of Main, between Washington and Exposition, on land right next to the railroad tracks. The building in the foreground appears to be gone  now, but I recognized the white, rounded towers behind it — I never knew what that building was, but I now know that it is the Frito company’s former grain elevator. And it’s still standing. Which I’m thankful for (and a bit surprised by) since it’s always been one of my favorite buildings in the area.

The Frito company (now Frito-Lay) has had its headquarters in the Dallas area since 1933. In the ’40s, its corporate offices were on Cedar Springs and its manufacturing plant was over near Fair Park, on Main Street. By 1947, the ever-expanding company had grown so much and had become so successful that it spent half a million dollars to build a whopping new grain elevator. The Dallas Morning New s was there for a sneak-peek:

The extra-tough volcanic stones in the adjacent factory Monday will begin grinding corn supplied from a spanking new, ten-story white building just off the 3800 block of Main Street. […] The tall square gleaming structure is a $515,000 thoroughly modern elevator. […] Air-conditioned and equipped with the latest design apparatus, the elevator has storage capacity for 90,000 bushels of corn. It will supply the grain to the company’s factories in Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Denver, Tulsa, and two plants in Los Angeles.

The new Frito elevator, weather proofed on the outside and weather controlled inside, was designed by Eugene Davis, architect. Huge grain cleaners which remove all chaff and foreign matter by shaking and air blast, occupy the second floor. Spray machinery gives the grain a thorough treatment to prevent infestation — the ‘buga-boo’ of grain products manufacturers. (DMN, Aug. 10, 1947, “Corn: $515,000 Elevator Latest Chapter in Corn-Chip Saga”)

Fifty-one boxcar loads of “select corn” — sans chaff and infestation — could be stored in that gleaming state-of-the-art grain elevator, designed by Eugene Davis (who a few years earlier, had designed another building for the Frito people, a small building at Wall and Corinth which housed the Pork Skin Chip Company).

In 1947, 3800 Main appears to have been something of a corn-chip Hyannisport — a self-contained compound in which all aspects of chip-production were seen to. As Kaleta Doolin (daughter of company founder C. E. Doolin) wrote in her book Fritos Pie :

Mr. Davis was the architect of all the various parts of the Frito plant in Dallas. The plant included the company’s grain elevator, where all the corn was stored; the machine shop (which my uncle Earl was in charge of); the food processing area; and the shipping warehouse, all built by Mr. Davis in 1947.

But that building in the top photo… that one had been there for years. 3800 Main Street had been the home of two or three car dealerships in the decades before Frito moved in. In 1929, as this photo shows, it was the location of the long-lived Ford dealership, Lamberth Motor Company.

And here’s the same building in 1947, Frito-ized.

And the side of the building, taken from across the railroad tracks, then and now.

Another old building survives! What a relief that Dallas doesn’t tear down EVERY cool old building!

Sources & Notes

Can’t find a source for the top photo. It looks as if someone took a photo of a framed picture which is probably hanging on the wall of a person who feels a great kinship to old Dallas. Or to Fritos. Or to snacks.

Quote about the various parts of the plant is from Fritos Pie: Stories, Recipes, and More by Kaleta Doolin (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2011), p. 45.

The two 1947 photos of the Frito building are insets from a series of logrolling ads in which Frito thanks Texas Bank & Trust for all the money they’ve helped Frito make, and Texas Bank & Trust thanks Frito for all the money they’ve helped Texas Bank & Trust make. The take-away? There sure is a lot of money to be made in fried food.

The bottom two photos are from Google maps: the first looking toward the old granary from the railroad tracks, and the second looking down from the unblinking Google eyeball in the sky.

Lastly, a current photo of the building, now renovated and occupied by Hammers + Partners Architecture (whose daily business affairs are probably always accompanied by the faint smell of fried corn wafting past), can be seen here . (What must that building look like inside?!)

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Copyright © 2014 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.

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Does anyone remember the name of the restaurant in downtown Dallas that sold frito pie. I think it was called BEK’s ??

I go by the old Frito corp headquarters all the time. It needs a historic marker.

and isn’t the old Frito headquarters 3927 Main?

That may be the present address — I tend to go by the original address.

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How a Texas Factory Is Emerging as a Key Ammo Supplier for the U.S., Ukraine

M ESQUITE, Texas—Walking past new hydraulic presses and orange robots handling semifinished artillery shells, U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth had a question for a manufacturing company executive.

“Do the Russians have this technology?” Wormuth asked Ibrahim Kulekci, chief executive of the Turkish firm that designed and installed key machinery in the plant.

Kulekci said they wouldn’t get it from his firm. “Keep it that way,” Wormuth responded.

The conflict in Ukraine has left the U.S. military and allies wanting for shells and other firepower, triggering a push to quickly boost production. Long reliant on World War II-era plants, the Pentagon is spending $6 billion to revamp them with modern equipment and expand output at new facilities that can churn out a variety of munitions, from shells to mortars.

Armed with a slice of a $1 billion contract, defense contractor General Dynamics is leaning on complex machines to make ammunition faster and more efficiently.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. each month produced around 14,000 of the commonly used 155mm shells, which are about 2 feet long and weigh around 100 pounds. Ukraine has been firing thousands of shells a day from U.S.-made M777 howitzers, weapons designed to hit targets as far as 20 miles away.

The Pentagon is seeking to boost U.S. output of 155mm shells from around 30,000 a month currently to 100,000 by the end of 2025. The Texas plant would take the nation more than halfway to that target, with the first of three production lines set to start this fall.

The shell factory is among U.S. efforts to bring home the production of materials deemed critical to national security, such as explosives, rare-earth minerals and semiconductors. Lockheed Martin is doubling output of its Javelin and Himars rockets at facilities in Camden, Ark. A subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies is expanding a nearby solid rocket motor plant.

The push to quickly expand domestic manufacturing will rely heavily on foreign countries. Machine tools and other critical gear needed to run domestic factories come from plants in countries such as Japan, Germany and Turkey. Defense supply chains that took decades to develop outside the U.S. could take as long to replicate domestically, industry executives said.

Pumping out shells

The facility here is far removed from decades-old shell plants in the U.S. that feature cacophonous clanking from aging machines or fiery blast furnaces.

The new plant is quiet and compact, sitting next to a Frito-Lay distribution facility in a modern industrial park east of Dallas. General Dynamics targeted the Mesquite area as it operates a munitions plant about a dozen miles north in Garland, providing a trained workforce and access to nearby suppliers.

“You have all the elements here necessary to get the job done,” said Phebe Novakovic, CEO of General Dynamics.

Inside the plant, 30-foot-tall, green-painted presses fashion steel bars into the shape of shell casings. A small furnace heats the partly finished shells to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, allowing them to be shaped more precisely. They are then transferred to cooling tunnels and checked for quality.

Most of the process is automated. Roughly 27 machine operators are required, with the bulk of the planned workforce of 400 focused on maintaining the computer-controlled equipment.

General Dynamics selected Repkon, whose headquarters are in Turkey, to supply the presses because no U.S.-based vendor could meet the deadline of having the plant up and running in two years.

Turkey has emerged as a big defense-equipment producer, including drones widely used in Ukraine. Its close ties with U.S. defense companies were interrupted in 2019 when Turkey bought a Russian-made missile defense system, triggering its ejection from the F-35 fighter jet program. Diplomatic relations have since improved.

“Without the support from Turkey, this facility would be empty,” Wormuth said after a plant tour with Novakovic.

The robots are made in Germany by Kuka. The firm was bought in 2016 by Midea, a Chinese appliance maker. The equipment isn’t subject to any of the sanctions imposed on some Chinese machinery and raw materials, an Army spokesperson said.

“U.S. companies could have duplicated a lot of the machinery, but not quickly enough,” said John Kelly, CEO of the U.S. arm of Hanwha Defense. The South Korean company has worked with General Dynamics, though it wasn’t involved in the Mesquite project.

The Texas plant is one link of the shell-supply chain. The steel-shell casings produced here are trucked to an Army plant in Iowa. There, the casings are packed with explosives made at facilities in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. When completed, the 155mm shells are shipped to Army warehouses or directly to Ukraine.

Building an ecosystem

For years when the Pentagon needed to cut its budget, orders for munitions were among the first items on the chopping block.

A different approach is under way, as the Pentagon seeks for the U.S. to be self-sufficient in producing key ammunition like artillery shells. In January, it outlined a long-range strategy to prop up the defense-industrial ecosystem.

The Defense Department said it is committed to maintaining output at elevated levels for several years, and the new plant machinery allows a variety of shells and mortars to be produced on the same line. Boosting domestic stockpiles is critical to prepare for future conflicts, officials have said.

Shells coming off the new production lines cost the Army the same as existing ones from older facilities. They also have improved accuracy and a lower failure rate, Army acquisition chief Doug Bush said.

The Ukraine conflict has charged growth at General Dynamics’s combat-systems division, which also makes equipment such as Abrams tanks and Stryker armored vehicles. Demand for war-fighting gear pushed sales in the combat division up 20% in the first quarter after rising 13% last year.

“We’re in an ugly period right now, and that is driving the need for our allies and the United States to arm in the face of threat,” said Novakovic at a General Dynamics’s investor conference in February.

Write to Doug Cameron at [email protected]

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"We've called Rosenberg home for nearly 40 years. Throughout that time, the support of Fort Bend County has helped us invest in the right areas so that we can continue to grow and provide jobs to the community." "The Rosenberg site has the largest footprint of any Frito-Lay facility in Texas, producing snacks for Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas and Georgia, and several other parts of the country when we hit times of peak demand. We thank Fort Bend County for bringing investments like this to life."

"Frito-Lay has been a long-time partner in Fort Bend County, coming to Rosenberg in 1982 with about 100 employees. They have expanded in Rosenberg over the years, choosing to grow their footprint in our community, and now have more than 700 employees – and that number will go up with this latest expansion. They are active corporate citizens, and one of our larger employers. We are proud of our partnership with Frito-Lay and thank them for their investment in Fort Bend."

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Frito-Lay's Rosenberg facility set for $138 million expansion

Officials from snack-food industry leader Frito-Lay recently confirmed plans for a $138 million construction project to expand operations at their manufacturing and warehouse facility in Rosenberg over the next two years. With 575 full-time employees working three around-the-clock shifts, Frito Lay is recognized as one of the county’s largest employers and to aid with the expansion plans, Fort Bend County Judge KP George and members of the Commissioners Court recently approved a tax abatement agreement.

“We always look for opportunities to invest in economic development and are in talks with numerous entities currently for similar agreements. We want to attract industry to come and do business in Fort Bend County because they create jobs and pay taxes eventually and we want our existing businesses like Frito Lay to grow and expand. Always, this is a good deal for everybody,” Judge George said. “The bottom line is Fort Bend County is open for business. We work to attract businesses and entice industry to come here and work to help existing businesses to continue to grow here.

“One of my goals as county judge is to attract more business to Fort Bend County. More businesses mean more jobs. In the past, we were known as a bedroom community for the City of Houston. We wanted to change that and evolve into a community where we live here and we play here. We educate our children here and also, we work here. That is our motto, and this will continue to be a focus for so to create more jobs for our citizens,” he said.

A tax abatement is an agreement approved by county commissioners for full or partial exemption from ad valorem taxes. The terms of the Frito-Lay agreement were negotiated by officials from the Fort Bend County Economic Development Council for a partial tax exemption based on only the value of the new expansion. The agreement runs from 2019 through Dec. 31, 2031 and grants a 45 percent tax reduction.

“The Fort Bend Economic Development Council is a functional arm of the county and they have been an excellent working partner for us,” George said. “When it comes to business and industry, they are the experts. So, when businesses are considering relocating to Fort Bend County or existing businesses like Frito Lay are seeking to expand, the Fort Bend County Economic Development Council steps in and maintains a leadership role for us in the process.”

Frito-Lay Inc. North America is a subsidiary company of the publicly-traded fortune-500 company Pepsico. Frito-Lay has maintained a position as the fastest growing segment for PepsiCo in recent years, according to company financial reports.

The Rosenberg production and warehouse facility currently operates seven manufacturing lines that produce Lay's potato chips, Tostitos, Doritos, Cheetos, Baked Cheetos, Fritos and Tostitos Scoops. The multi-million dollar expansion will increase the existing 470,00 square-foot facility by 120,000 square-feet of warehouse space and facilitates the addition of a new product line along with adding new seasonings and equipment to the plant inventory.

Construction will start in January 2020 with a scheduled completion date in late 2021.

“Frito-Lay is proud to have had a presence in Rosenberg, Texas, for more than 35 years and to employ more than 575 plant and warehouse full-time associates at the site,” company officials said in an email. “Our continued growth has provided a need for additional capacity at our Rosenberg site, and this long-term construction project will enhance the site’s overall capabilities. The $138 million investment, planned to be operational in late 2021, will include a new Cheetos line, new seasoning and packaging equipment, and a warehouse expansion.”

Producing more than 125 million pounds of snacks each year, the Rosenberg facility serves states including Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas and Georgia. The site also provides seasonal support for Wisconsin, Virginia and California.

Projected economic impact of $128 million plant expansion

Although the number of jobs at the plant is not expected to increase as a result of the expansion, company officials say productivity initiatives will allow management to upgrade some lower-skilled jobs to positions requiring a higher skill set and offering a more attractive salary. Currently, the average base salary at the Rosenberg facility is approximately $50,000 annually.

Economic development documents state the economic impact of business travel related to the plant expansion will boost hotel occupancy tax and sales tax revenues for Rosenberg and nearby communities with overnight bookings estimated to equal 25,000 overnight stays. In addition, the local economy could potentially benefit via increased business for local suppliers who will have the opportunity to bid on various projects during construction. In addition, existing contracts with local businesses that provide products and services will potentially benefit as the need for parts, additional materials, recycling services and waste handling among other things will increase, company officials report.

Production activity is expected to increase by approximately 35 additional trucks each week to bring in raw materials and finished goods, according to agenda documents from the November 12 commissioners court meeting.

Frito-Lay to Create 160 Jobs with Rosenberg, Texas, Plant Expansion

PLANO, Texas , June 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo and leading snack manufacturer, along with Fort Bend County , today announced a $200 million investment at its Rosenberg, Texas , site. The investment will add two manufacturing lines for Funyuns and tortilla chips, as well as increase capacity in its warehouse to enhance capabilities and enable future growth. Anticipated to be complete by 2023, the project will provide 160 new, full-time jobs.

The Frito-Lay Rosenberg facility today employs more than 750 full-time plant and fleet associates and produces more than 117 million pounds of snacks annually.

"We've called Rosenberg home for nearly 40 years. Throughout that time, the support of Fort Bend County has helped us invest in the right areas so that we can continue to grow and provide jobs to the community," said Laura Maxwell , senior vice president of supply chain, PepsiCo Foods North America. "The Rosenberg site has the largest footprint of any Frito-Lay facility in Texas , producing snacks for Texas , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Kansas and Georgia , and several other parts of the country when we hit times of peak demand. We thank Fort Bend County for bringing investments like this to life."

This is the second investment Frito-Lay has made since 2019 to the Rosenberg site when the company announced a $138 million investment that added a new Cheetos line, new seasoning and packaging equipment and a warehouse expansion, set to be complete late 2021.

"Frito-Lay has been a long-time partner in Fort Bend County , coming to Rosenberg in 1982 with about 100 employees," said Vincent M. Morales, Jr. , commissioner, Fort Bend County Commissioner's Office, Precinct One. "They have expanded in Rosenberg over the years, choosing to grow their footprint in our community, and now have more than 700 employees – and that number will go up with this latest expansion. They are active corporate citizens, and one of our larger employers. We are proud of our partnership with Frito-Lay and thank them for their investment in Fort Bend ."

Ongoing Commitment to the Community With Frito-Lay's continued commitment to the communities where its associates live and work, the company has programs to give back in the Houston area, including its Building the Future Together initiative in partnership with Feed the Children. The program provided donations to five Houston -area high schools during the 2020-2021 school year, supplementing 33,000 meals and providing monthly deliveries of other items such as school supplies, snacks, books, hand sanitizer and personal care items. In addition, The PepsiCo Foundation program to support Black and Hispanic aspiring and graduating community college students has partnered locally with Houston Community College , providing more than 200 scholarships over the next two years.

For more information on Frito-Lay, visit FritoLay.com .

About Frito-Lay North America Frito-Lay North America is the $18 billion convenient foods division of PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP), which is headquartered in Purchase, N.Y. Learn more about Frito-Lay at the corporate website,  http:www.fritolay.com/   and on Twitter  http://www.twitter.com/fritolay .

About PepsiCo PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $70 billion in net revenue in 2020, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker, Tropicana and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 23 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Convenient Foods and Beverages by Winning with Purpose. "Winning with Purpose" reflects our ambition to win sustainably in the marketplace and embed purpose into all aspects of our business strategy and brands. For more information, visit  www.pepsico.com

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