Danone To Close Us Dairy-alternatives Factory

Silk almond dairy-alternative drinks connected waste successful Apex, North Carolina, 9 November 2025. Credit: PJ McDonnell/Shutterstock.com

Danone is to unopen a dairy-alternatives mill successful nan US making products nether nan Silk and So Delicious Dairy Free brands.

The French group plans to adjacent nan tract successful Bridgeton, New Jersey connected 4 August. The move will impact astir 114 employees, nan institution told Just Food.

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The installation produces Silk and So Delicious Dairy Free drinks. Danone said accumulation will beryllium transferred to 3 different plants successful Mt. Crawford, Virginia, Dallas, Texas and Jacksonville, Florida.

“This alteration is portion of a broader effort to toggle shape our web and enables our finance successful captious capabilities crossed our halfway US footprint for nan agelong term,” Danone said.

The institution does not provided elaborate financials connected merchandise segments successful circumstantial markets. However, erstwhile nan group published its 2025 results successful February, CFO Juergen Esser said Danone’s plant-based business successful North America had an “unsatisfactory performance” past year.

According to a study from nan Good Food Institute, based connected SPINS unit income data, plant-based beverage remained nan largest plant-based class successful nan US successful 2025, pinch income of $2.7bn and a 13% stock of full unit beverage sales.

However, class income slipped 2% year-on-year.

The study said immoderate sub-segments performed better, pinch soy beverage dollar income rising 4% and coconut beverage up 27%, while respective adjacent plant-based categories including yogurt, creamers and ready-to-drink beverages besides posted growth.

The planned closure successful New Jersey contrasts pinch Danone’s description moves elsewhere successful its network.

Last month, Danone said it will invest some €20m ($23.5m) to grow its skyr accumulation successful France. 

In November, nan institution announced a “major” investment at a mill successful Canada. The description of nan tract successful Boucherville will summation yogurt output astatine nan works by 40% and its earthy beverage processing capacity by 20%. 

In August past year, nan institution group out plans to grow its Minster yogurt mill successful Ohio, which produces brands specified arsenic Oikos, Activia, Dannon and Danimals.