Mennel Milling Toledo

2221 Front Street

Many take this mill for granted when they admire Toledo's Maumee riverfront from downtown. Maybe these facts will change how they view it in the future.

• Soft wheat flour milling at this Front Street site dates back to 1892. The National Biscuit Co. (NABISCO) bought the operation in 1926, and the current facility was built in 1976.

• This operation is the second-largest soft wheat flour mill in the United States and one of the largest flour mills in the world. 

• The six-story, 61,000-square-foot mill processes more than 80 percent of all the flour used by NABISCO and Kraft, which merged in 2000 to become one of the country's largest food manufacturers. In 2008, the companies split, the NABISCO name was dropped, and Kraft's snack food line was renamed Mondelez International. The Mennel Milling Company announced the acquisition of the Toledo Flour Mill from Mondelez International, Inc., in November 2025. The Toledo Flour Mill will continue to supply flour to Mondelez under Mennel’s ownership, while also expanding access to Mennel’s products across additional markets.

• According to Mennel, the mill sources high-quality wheat by truck, rail, and ship, and is equipped with advanced blending, testing, and grading systems. Today, the facility can produce up to 40,000 cwts – or 4 million pounds of soft wheat flour each day – including a variety of soft wheat flour products for customers across the region.

• So, how important is this facility? In 2014, the mill was shut down for a week after a train derailment knocked out power to the facility. Since the mill is a significant source of mill feed—a byproduct of the flour milling process widely used in livestock feed—acute shortages of mill feed were reported across various locations, and spot prices trended sharply higher until the mill was put back into production.