Five facilities, and three of them publish a minimum run. That's 60% — the highest rate of any state we track with five or more facilities, ahead of Wisconsin and about four times the national average. The published figures run from 12 cases to 1,000 gallons.
Published minimums first, smallest to largest, then the rest. The three figures use different units — cases and gallons — so read what each one actually covers before comparing.
| Facility | City | Minimum run | Formats | Alcohol | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creekside Springsalso in Ambridge, PA | Salineville | 12 cases | PET 12 oz–5 gal | Not published | The lowest published minimum in the state, stated plainly on their own site: "orders ranging from 12 cases to truckloads." Spring, distilled, purified and enriched water, with label design and 24-hour EDI dispatch. Also covered on our Pennsylvania page. |
| Atlas Canningalso in Odessa, FL | Ohio site — city not published | 140 cases | Can | Not published | Tunnel pasteurisation, RTD, energy and functional drinks. Will take standalone co-packing or full service, including formulation and label design — an unusual split. Also on our Florida page. |
| NICHE Beverage Company | Cincinnati | 1,000 gal300 gal for a pilot run | Can, standard & sleek | Spirits RTD — TTB licensed | Publishes both its standard floor and a lower pilot figure, which few facilities do. Complex formulations, spirits-based RTD and hemp beverages, with in-line pasteurisation. |
| Impact Beverage | Cincinnati | Not published | Can | Not published | Co-packer for high-growth brands: RTD, functional, still and carbonated sodas, plus CBD/THC drinks. Expanded by around 65 jobs in late 2024. An SQF certification appears in state economic-development sources but not on their own site. |
| Pilot Canning Company | Columbus | Not published | Can, glass | Not published | Built around pilot runs and small batches — soda, sparkling water, seltzer, tea, RTD and mocktails, with custom cans. Advertises "low MOQs" without naming a figure, so it stays unpublished here despite the small-batch positioning. |
Ohio has five facilities to California's thirty-five. It publishes as many minimums as California does — from a list a seventh the size. If you're shopping by run size, a short transparent list beats a long silent one every time.
The spread is what makes it useful: Creekside Springs will bottle 12 cases of water, NICHE wants 1,000 gallons for a standard run but will do 300 for a pilot, and Atlas sits at 140 cases in between. Three genuinely different sizes of brand are served here, and each one can work out where they fit before making a call.
The two that don't publish are both worth noting anyway. Pilot Canning is explicitly built for small batches and pilot runs — it may well be the most accessible facility on this page, but it won't say so with a number. Impact Beverage handles CBD and THC drinks, a category most co-packers won't touch.
Across the 217 facilities we track nationally, 33 publish a minimum — about one in seven. Ohio publishes three of five.
That puts it ahead of Wisconsin (four of ten), New Jersey and Florida (three of eight each), and far ahead of North Carolina, which publishes nothing at all across eight facilities.
NICHE publishing both a standard minimum and a pilot figure is the useful pattern here. A facility that names its pilot number is telling you it actually wants first-time brands, not just tolerating them.
NICHE's 1,000 gallons isn't the entry point — their published pilot run is 300 gallons. If you're testing a product rather than launching it, ask for the pilot, not the standard run.
Two of these five run plants in other states. Creekside Springs also bottles in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, and Atlas Canning's main published address is Odessa, Florida. Confirm which site would actually run your product — the Ohio location's city isn't published in either case.
Pilot Canning's "low MOQs" is a claim, not a number. Given the name and the small-batch positioning, it's likely genuinely low — but we don't convert marketing language into a published figure. Ask them directly.
Tell us the product and the volume. We come back with the facilities that can actually run it — including the two here that don't publish a number.
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