Company Donation Being Matched by Brynn and Peter Huntsman for Total of
$1,000,000
THE
WOODLANDS, Texas, April 3,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntsman associates participated
in a celebratory groundbreaking event on Wednesday to help expand
the Montgomery County Food Bank in Conroe, Texas. A longtime benefactor of
MCFB, Huntsman Corporation's $500,000
donation over five years is also being matched by Brynn and Peter Huntsman. This combined
donation of $1,000,000 – in
partnership with other donations – will help expand the nonprofit's
facility by 18,000 square feet.
The $6.5 million expansion project
known as Build Today, Feed Tomorrow is also supported by a grant
through the Texas Legislature. Construction is expected to be
completed by the end of 2024 and will include additional cold
storage, a new welcome center, communal spaces, warehouse storage
and parking upgrades. Expanding the food bank will allow the
facility to optimize food donations and "rescue" food that would
otherwise spoil, saving more than 110,000 pounds of produce. This
will help MCFB serve an additional 5,000 households per month.
"We're extremely passionate about the work MCFB does to serve
families in need across Montgomery
County, and we're pleased to see this much-needed expansion
break ground," said Huntsman Chairman, President and CEO
Peter Huntsman.
The MCFB served more than 80,000 clients per month in 2023, a
23% increase from 2022, due to rising food costs and ongoing
inflation.
"If there were ever a cause that can and should unite a
community, it's bringing together as many resources as possible to
stamp out hunger. There are children and seniors and many others in
households across our community who rely on the food bank to make
it through the month," Huntsman said.
About Huntsman:
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded corporation
headquartered in The Woodlands,
Texas, in the United States of
America. Huntsman is a global downstream, differentiated,
and specialty chemicals company. For more than 50 years, we have
been using science and ingenuity to innovate and create products
that enable more sustainable and comfortable lives for millions of
people around the world. In 2023, Huntsman had more
than 6,000 associates working in nearly 60 manufacturing, research
and development (R&D), and operations facilities in 25
countries. Through our three divisions, we produce approximately
6,250 products to serve a broad and diverse range of consumer and
industrial end markets including aerospace,
transportation, building and construction, consumer goods,
energy and fuels, and food preservation. For more
information about Huntsman, please visit
www.huntsman.com.
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