Leprino Foods, Greeley

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Leprino Foods operates a 756,000-square-foot cheese and dairy ingredients plant on a 100-acre site in Greeley, Colorado, processing roughly 7 million pounds of milk per day into mozzarella, nonfat dry milk, whey protein isolate, lactose, and other dairy ingredients. Leprino invested $200 million to build the plant on the former Great Western Sugar factory site, opening Phase One in November 2011 and completing Phase Two in 2013. Its ammonia refrigeration system holds roughly 110,000 pounds, well above the 10,000-pound threshold that triggers a federal process safety management program. Greeley is the county seat of Weld County in northern Colorado, a city of about 110,000 people located roughly 50 miles north of Denver along the Cache la Poudre River.

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ABOUT THIS FACILITY

Reported employees

~500

Ammonia on site

110,000 lbs (per EPA RMP filings)

On file · Sep 2026

ABOUT LEPRINO FOODS

Leprino Foods traces to 1950, when Mike Leprino Sr. began making mozzarella at his family's corner grocery store in Denver, Colorado. His son Jim Leprino took over as chairman and chief executive in 1972 and built the company into the world's largest mozzarella cheese manufacturer, also producing lactose and whey protein. As of 2025 Leprino employs more than 5,500 people across plants in the United States, United Kingdom, and other countries, with reported annual revenue near $3 billion. The company remains privately held and family-owned, still headquartered at its original Denver site.

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