Kervan USA, a Turkish company that produces gummy, licorice, and marshmallow candies, will open a $20 million packaging and manufacturing facility in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
The company currently has its U.S. headquarters in Whitehall Township, in the Lehigh Valley, and packaging and distribution locations in New Jersey. It will consolidate those operations, and later add manufacturing, at a 90,000-square-foot building under construction in Lower Nazareth and Bethlehem townships that is expected to be open next year. Plans call for about 40 new employees to be hired, bringing Kervan USA’s Lehigh Valley workforce to about 50.
“This location made perfect sense, both proximity to the ports and the workforce,” said Gokhan Kacmaz, Kervan USA’s Chief Financial Officer. “We saw a big opportunity. All this made the Lehigh Valley a great location to make this investment.”…