The contract manufacturer SternMaid is due to start construction work on a second production plant for powdered foods and food supplements in September. In the initial phase a production and warehouse complex (plant 2) with a floor area of 5,000 m² will be built opposite Plant 1. According to the current schedule, the construction work will take just under one year, the total volume of the investments in 2016/2017 will be 15 million Euro. As far as possible the two plants will work independently of each other. Plant 1 will in future focus on all products intended for further industrial processing, whereas Plant 2 will manufacture all retail products. For this reason, the small-pack filling lines currently in use will move into the new plant in 2017. The floor space thus released will be converted into blending and filling areas for industrial products. Separation of the two types of production will ease the logistic situation on the site, which is made difficult by the increasing volume of goods handled.