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Around Town | Steve Fritzler Leprino Foods

By Nick Bergfeld,

Published November 4, 2022 at 8:30 AM CDT

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Steve Fritzler Vice President, Production at Leprino Foods

Steve discusses Leprino Foods plans of a new, state-of-the-art 850,000 square foot dairy manufacturing facility in Lubbock, Texas.

The new Lubbock site represents an $870 million capital investment and is expected to employ approximately 600 full-time personnel when it is fully operational. The facility will produce mozzarella cheese and dairy ingredients.

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Nick Bergfeld

Nick is the Around Town host on Texas Tech Public Media, and a sustainable economic development consultant based on the High Plains. He graduated with his bachelors’ in biochemistry and psychology from Texas Tech University, and his medical doctorate from the Yale School of Medicine and master’s in public policy from Harvard’s School of Government. Nick can be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter @nickbergfeld.

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Radio producer at KTTZ-FM 89.1 in Lubbock, Texas for Texas Tech Public Media.

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