The Mennel Milling Company, headquartered in Fostoria, has announced plans to purchase General Mills' Martel Bakery Mix and Packaging plant, expanding their product line into the bakery mix business. The sale is expected to be finalized Nov. 1. "With this acquisition we will no longer be constrained to selling flour as an ingredient into baked goods or bakery mix," President D. Ford Mennel said in a press release. "We will now be able to offer a full line of bakery mix products to our big box, commercial, wholesale and bakery customers and marketplaces." This expansion is the latest in a series of expansions over the past year. In January, the company announced plans to invest $40-50 million to revitalize their facility. The 2020 Plan is a 10-year project to improve the Fostoria plant by consolidating business operations into one location and expanding grain storage capabilities. Last year, Mennel invested over $8 million in local projects, several of which are ongoing. They installed a new transformer, replaced four grain bins (all of which were more than 100 years old), and installed a new flour-drying system and a new extrusion plant. They are also preparing to move to their new corporate headquarters in August and plan to add four more storage bins, doubling their previous capacity. The Mennel Milling Company has been milling wheat into flour since 1886. Their corporate headquarters are located in Fostoria, Ohio, with five flour mills, seven elevators and three trucking companies located across Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Virginia. Mennel has been a supplier to the Martel, Ohio facility for over 40 years.