Takeover bidder Cerebos owns the Gregg's coffee brand in Dunedin, which is the country's only instant coffee producer, and is about halfway through a $6 million redevelopment at the factory.
Project manager Bryan Scott and production manager Glenys Fraser stand beside the new two-storey coffee roaster at the Dunedin plant yesterday.
Contacted yesterday, Cerebos food and coffee division chief executive George Crocker said the installation of the coffee roaster, boiler and other equipment was expected to take another three months.
Gregg's, which is celebrating its 150th year in Dunedin, employs 42 staff at its Forth St premises.
Mr Crocker said while capacity would not be increased beyond the present, which is about 1000 tonnes per year, the Dunedin plant was "flat out" supplying the domestic market, but could potentially be used to supply more coffee to the Australian market in the future.
