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Tyson Foods Inc. plans to reopen an idle facility in Columbia, South Carolina and convert it into a meat-cutting facility that will produce retail-ready packaging into slices of fresh, sliced beef and pork as well as meat ground, to stores in the eastern US, according to a press release.
“Once operational, this new facility will help us meet the growing demand from our retail customers with high-quality, pre-cut and pre-packaged fresh beef and pork,” Nate Hodne, senior vice president and general manager from the Protein Innovations team ported to Tyson Fresh Meats, a beef and pork subsidiary of Tyson Foods, said in the press release.
Initially, Tyson will invest approximately US $ 42 million to transform the facility into a meat portioning and packaging operation, which is currently expected to start production in May 2021. In the next three to five years, the company plans to invest in additional improvements and production equipment at the facility with an estimated total investment of US $ 55 million.
The new operation will employ 330 people, more than double the number of team members who worked at the facility when it closed in August 2020.