LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chaucer, a global producer of specialist food ingredients and products, is pleased to announce the opening of its brand new, purpose built US Freeze Dry factory in Portland, Oregon. The factory will position Chaucer as the market leader on the global freeze dried fruit and vegetable manufacturing platform. The new facility will establish Chaucer in the US freeze dried market and 75 jobs in the local economy. It will support the requirements of all of the existing US cus