Perdue Expands Meat Operations with $29M Investment
by Anne Allen
SIOUX CITY, IA
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
Perdue Farms’ Perdue Premium Meat Co. will be unveiling its latest operations expansion in February. The meat company has invested $29 million into upgrading its
Sioux City, Iowa, pork harvesting facility, which will include a two-story, 50,000-square-foot addition.
“This is an investment in and implementing of state-of-the-art cutting technology with robotics and computer imaging,” Gary Malenke, Senior Vice President of Perdue Premium Pork Operations, disclosed to news source Sioux Center News. “We’ll have the ability to cut meat with tremendous precision while adopting some of the automation systems that are available to us.”
The expansion project, which is expected to add 50 jobs to the facility, first kicked off in August of 2018. The facility addition will also allow Perdue to create more case-ready product for its customers.
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The news source also notes that the Sioux Center plant processes about 4,500 pigs a day and more than 1.2 million annually.
Need I say more about who is probably processing "4,500 pigs a day"?
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