Heinz Starts Construction on $105 Million Frozen-Food Facility in South Carolina

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)-- H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE:HNZ) (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) has started construction on a state-of-the-art frozen-food facility in Florence, South Carolina. The $105 million facility will increase the company's production of Weight Watchers Smart Ones and Boston Market frozen entrees. Plans call for a 225,000-square-foot facility that will be completed in fall 2009. Site utilities and pouring of the building pad are in progress.

Heinz awarded a design-build contract for the building to the Stellar Group (Jacksonville, Florida), and Bassett Mechanical Contractors & Engineers (Kaukauna, Wisconsin) will be responsible for the refrigeration package.

The facility is being built on a 49-acre site in the Pee Dee Touchstone Energy Commerce near Interstate 95 and S.C. 327.

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