Huhtamaki’s Waterville manufacturing plant is making a compostable line of plates for six major public school systems across the country as part of a contract awarded earlier this year.
The Bangor Daily News reported that Huhtamaki, which employs about 550 people at its Waterville plant, was awarded a plate production contract by Urban School Food Alliance, a nonprofit that represents public school districts in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, New York and Dallas.
The contract’s term is three years, though there is an option to extend it to five years. All of the plates are currently produced at the company’s Waterville plant, but production may expand to another plant once production ramps up.
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