11 Apr 2019 --- Barilla, the Italian family-owned food company, has celebrated the expansion of its pasta plant and integrated durum mill located in Ames, Iowa. This expansion brings the facility's production capacity to 200,000 metric tons of dry pasta per year. Since 2014, the Barilla Group has invested US$27 million in the gluten-free production lines and US$65 million in their expansion of two new lines and associated packaging equipment.