Prepared Foods visits Fuchs North America’s new headquarters, plant and culinary center in Hampstead, Md.
Editor’s Note: For more than half a century, Fuchs North America (formerly Baltimore Spice) operated in Owings Mills, Md. Despite several major expansions in the 1970s and again in the 1990s, the company had outgrown the facility, with little ability to expand on the remaining grounds. The company purchased a 21-acre campus in nearby Hampstead and broke ground in 2015 for a 210,000-square-foot facility. This past summer brought a grand opening at that new site, which doubled the company’s manufacturing capacity.
Equally important, the new headquarters includes a number of enhanced product development functions and capabilities, starting with expanded R&D test lab facilities encompassing a microbiology lab, a quality assurance lab, plus an entirely new sensory lab along with a spacious new state-of-the-art presentation kitchen.