Coming Soon: $135 Million Pork Processing Plant in Quad-Cities
St. Joseph, Mo.-based Triumph Foods to begin construction in early 2007 and open its doors to hogs in 2009. Compiled by staff
Compiled by staff
Published: Jun 6, 2006
Construction of a new, state-of-the-art $135 million pork processing plant is set to begin next March on a 116-acre site in East Moline.
The Quad Cities edged out the community of Galesburg as the site for a 260,000-square-foot pork plant to be built by the St. Joseph, Mo.-based Triumph Foods.
The plant, which will feature innovative, new automated processes, hopes to begin slaughtering hogs in early 2009. About 8,000 hogs will be slaughtered daily, with the company planning to market about a third of the meat to Japan.
The plant will create an estimated 350 new jobs by 2009, and a total of 1,000 new jobs by 2010.
The new pork processing plant and additional packing capacity is touted as a move in the right direction by leading ag groups in the state and the Illinois Livestock Development Group, which has been established to rebuild the state’s livestock industry.
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