Kraft-Heinz string cheese production in Lowville added 125 jobs to local economy during expansion nearly 10-years-ago

LOWVILLE- The Kraft-Heinz facility has announced that it will cease its line of string cheese production this fall.

As of this report, we still do not have a firm answer as to how many job positions will or could be impacted as a consequence.

We have reached out to the corporate office for Kraft-Heinz and have yet to receive a response per this update.

Come late November, the facility will have fully sold out its natural cheese business to another U.S. affiliate group, per an agreement in 2021.

For context, Kraft-Heinz expanded their Lowville, NY facility via establishing their string cheese production back in 2016, according to previous publications.

The string cheese line was expected to another 125 jobs to the local economy.

Since word got out this week that the facility will halt its line of string cheese, the question that has floated throughout the North Country revolves around what will happen to those positions.

The expansion required several important infrastructure upgrades to the village of Lowville, including its wastewater treatment facility.

Furthermore, the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer announced this spring that the Kraft-Heinz facility in Lewis County was allotted $22 million in federal funding to make several clean energy upgrades as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

We have reached out to Schumer’s office for a response to this latest development, along with the office of State Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush.

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