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Amway’s parent company making major investment in West Michigan’s Ada Township

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Alticor is making a $127.6 million investment adding 260 new, high-paying jobs.

Alticor, the parent company of Amway, is renovating and expanding two of its West Michigan facilities.

At Amway’s Spaulding Plaza, 48,000 square feet of unused space will be transformed into a state-state-of-the-art Nutrition Solid Dose Manufacturing center. Think ingredient blending for hard and soft tablets.

On its main campus, the Fulton Street Innovation & Science Pilot Plant Facility will undergo an 18,750 square foot expansion for nutrition research and development.

Images from the XS Manufacturing Plant in Ada,MI at WHQ
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Images from the XS Manufacturing Plant in Ada,MI at WHQ

Alticor is making a $127.6 million investment adding 260 new high-paying jobs.

Amway is shuttering an out-of-state facility bringing those jobs and supply chain to its Ada Township campus.

“Our facility in California we will fully close operations by the end of 2026.”

Michael Nelson is Chief Operating & Chief People Officer.

“We’ve actually started hiring and we have transferred some of the roles here already and we will be hiring over the next two and a half years up to those 260 positions.”

Regional nonprofit economic development organization, The Right Place, and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation assisted Alticor. The MEDC supporting the projects with a $2 million Michigan Development Program Grant.

Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.