Westrock emerges as the US coffee powerhouse it has long aspired to be

With vast new single-serve and RTD production facilities fully commercialised, the Arkansas-based coffee group is harnessing significant multi-channel opportunities across the US

They say good things come to those who wait, and it must have been a nail-biting three years for Westrock Coffee’s leadership team as it accrued successive losses in pursuit of the most ambitious project in the company’s 17-year history.

In November 2022, Westrock broke ground on a new 524,000sq ft production site in Conway, Arkansas – reportedly the largest roast to ready-to-drink (RTD) manufacturing facility in the world.

The site began limited operations in June 2024 and was joined by a new single-serve coffee manufacturing facility 12 months later – at a combined cost of $360m.

With the new single-serve and RTD production facilities fully commercialised since the end of 2025, strong first quarter earnings will have prompted a collective sigh of relief among the US coffee roaster’s top brass.