Employee Joe Ramsdell monitors equipment that fills quart containers with Gifford’s ice cream at the company’s plant in Skowhegan. Production this year is expected to top 1.9 million gallons as demand continues to grow, and now the largest expansion in Gifford’s 41-year history will add to output capacity and the workforce.
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Samantha Gifford, marketing manager for Gifford’s Famous Ice Cream in Skowhegan, talks Wednesday with a construction worker outside the plant, where preliminary work on a $1.6 million expansion project is under way.
Employee Alex Thurlow transports a pallet of ice cream Wednesday inside a storage freezer. Gifford’s ice cream is distributed to about 1,000 retail outlets in New England and elsewhere.
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