Making M&Ms

Jan 25th, 2013

The site director at Mars, Inc.'s Hackettstown, New Jersey facility takes viewers on a tour of the processing plant, which processes the company's iconic M&M candies. Viewers get an inside look at the inner workings of the plant, the equipment and the processes involved in taking M&Ms from chocolate paste to world-famous candy.

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