Monday, February 27, 2012

Better Butter

As Kate’s Homemade Butter builds a new facility in Arundel, the company prepares for controlled growth—and even more of its better butter.

 
For 30 years, Kate’s Homemade Butter has been made in the basement and garage of Dan and Karen Patry’s raised ranch in a residential neighborhood of Old Orchard Beach. That’s about to change, as the family business moves to a 17,620-square-foot facility in Arundel sometime this  summer.


Now under construction, the state-of-the-art manufacturing plant will allow Kate’s to cut costs, lift capacity, and introduce more products—beyond butter and real buttermilk, which they launched three years ago—including cheese, ice cream, and other specialty foods. But it will also represent a nod to the very roots of the company, long before Dan and Karen Patry started selling butter in 1981. The steel-framed building will be shaped like a dairy barn, sitting on a 40-acre field with silos to store cream, a spring-fed trout pond, and a herd of 25 cows.

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