- April 25, 2024
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There’s a new manufacturer in town.
Future Foods Enterprises LLC, a food manufacturer and importer, has selected Ormond Beach to establish a new manufacturing and distribution plant, the city announced Monday.
“Ormond Beach is proud to welcome Future Foods LLC as a new corporate citizen,” said Ormond Beach Mayor Bill Partington in a press release. “As a company engaged in high tech applications in food manufacturing, Future Foods typifies the kind of companies seeking the exceptional business climate for which Ormond Beach is known.”
Future Foods will occupy an existing building at 1899 N. U.S. 1. It produces meat substitutes derived from plant-based proteins like soy, peas and beans, and currently imports both processed and finished product from Europe and sells to restaurants and insititutional dining facilities.
The company is expecting to create 50 new jobs over a three-year period. Its capital investment is about $5 million.
“This is great news for our company,” CEO Alex Kramarchuk said. “The community has a great deal to offer and the building meets many of our requirements. We look forward to becoming an active corporate citizen in our new home.”
Both Starbucks locations in Ormond Beach will be converting to paper straws in November, the city announced via Twitter after its inaugural Mondays with the Mayor event on Monday, Oct. 21.
This move is in support of the city’s effort to reduce single-use plastics. The city recently passed a plastic straw ban ordinance which was spearheaded by Commissioner Susan Persis.
The public dock and breakwater project should begin in the next couple of weeks, as contractor Brance Diversified Inc. is in the process of receiving materials needed.
The city accepted an almost $1.25 million bid for the project, which will accomodate 12 boats.
The contractor is expected to begin work on the fixed pier this month, an Oct. 18 staff report states.
The Florida Department of Health in Volusia County issued a health advisory for West Nile Virus on Oct. 17, due to an increase in the number of sentinel chickens testing positive for the disease.
There have been no human cases of infection confirmed in the county, but the risk of transmission to humans has increased.
