Twin Falls, Idaho welcomes new Chobani yogurt plant

Before he first came to Twin Falls, Chobani Inc. founder Hamdi Ulukaya knew little more about the city than that daredevil Evel Knievel once took an ill-fated flight over the Snake River Canyon here. Idaho, he said, was a place where people did crazy things.

So he said he decided to do a crazy thing: Build what his company says is the world’s largest yogurt plant and complete it in less than a year. "The craziest of all, we actually did it," Ulukaya said.

On Monday, Ulukaya and nearly 1,000 other people gathered in a large tent in the shadow of Chobani’s nearly one million-square-foot plant to dedicate its opening.

By Bill Roberts — [email protected]

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