Farmland Foods plans expansion
To spend $81 million in expanding its pork processing facility in Denison.
02/09/05 Farmland Foods, Inc. has announced a $81 million expansion of its pork processing facility in Denison that is expected to add 219 new jobs when the facility is completed in the late summer of 2007.
The Denison plant currently employs 1,500 workers producing fresh pork, hams and bacon.
Construction is underway on a 165,000-square-foot addition to the state- of-the-art Denison facility, which will allow for additional processing capacity for smoked sausage, ham slicing and hot dogs. The expansion also will provide space for the processing of an additional 1,150 hogs per day, raising the plant capacity to 10,350 from the current 9,200 hogs per day.
Farmland Foods, founded in 1959, is a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Inc., of Smithfield, Va. Farmland is headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., and has about 6,300 employees at its operations in Crete, Neb.; Denison and Carroll, Iowa; Monmouth, Ill.; Wichita, Kan.; New Riegel, Ohio; Salt Lake City, Utah.; and Springfield, Mass. Farmland processes fresh and frozen pork products for national retail and foodservice markets, with a strong concentration in the Midwest. Farmland serves an international commodity, foodservice and retail market in Asia, Central America and Eastern Europe.
