Contractor Ready to Turn Over $54 Million Vegetable Processing Plant to Dole

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). The world’s largest producer of fruits and vegetables, privately held Dole Fresh Vegetables, Incorporated (Westlake Village, California), will soon begin operating from a new $54 million vegetable processing plant and distribution center in Gastonia, North Carolina. Dennis Group Incorporated (Springfield, Massachusetts) the construction management firm for the project expects to turn over half of the plant, primarily the distribution center, to the owner at the end of next week and the other half of the operation in the coming weeks.

Construction on the roughly 300,000 square foot building, including refrigerated storage areas, started twelve months ago. The building and equipment are in place and the plant is currently going through the final check-out phase.

Primary operations at the new plant will involve taking fresh vegetables and processing them into bagged products for distribution in the southern and eastern United States.

Industrial Info’s Online Plant Database lists 239 operational Food and Beverage plants in North Carolina, 6,076 plants in throughout the continental United States, 1,014 plants in Canada, and 191 plants in Mexico.

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