Ardent Mills to close Mankato flour mill

November 22, 2024 - Ardent Mills has announced that they will shut down their Mankato flour mill by mid-January, with operations to begin winding-down shortly. The mill has a capacity of 10,000 hundredweight pet day and was built in the late 1890s, being owned by Ardent Mills since 2014.

The decision to close the mill comes 19 months after the company announced it was closing its Port Allen flour mill. In addition to the Mankato and Port Allen flour mills, the company has closed five other mills in recent years in Georgia, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nebraska.

When talking to The Minnesota Star Tribune, Kelly kaiser, a spokeswoman for the company asian that the company is closing the mill because of difficult market conditions "driven by excess capacity in this market and declining regional volume."

Ardent Mills said team members will be offered the opportunity to relocate to other Ardent Mills facilities when possible

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