Peco Foods Expanding Mississippi Plant; Contractor Identified

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Privately held poultry processor, Peco Foods Incorporated (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is currently expanding their Sebastopol, Mississippi poultry processing plant.

Construction began about a month ago at the plant located at 15292 Highway 21 South in Sebastopol on a pre-construction project that will expand the parking lot and add a new scale house. Once the final drawings are completed, the company plans to add roughly 65,000 square feet of manufacturing space to improve and expand the plant's evisceration and de-boning operations.

New evisceration lines and de-boning equipment will be added to the plant and the facilities entire refrigeration system will be upgraded, as well as the addition of a new dumping system on the back end of the process.

Peco selected Perry Construction Company (Philadelphia, Mississippi) as the general contractor for this $18 million expansion project and the new building construction is expected to begin within the next 30 days.

The project is on a fast track construction schedule that is slated for completion by February of 2005.

Peco Foods Incorporated is one of the major leading poultry suppliers to the nation's retail and foodservice markets and is recognized worldwide for its dedication to customer satisfaction and total quality management. The company has poultry processing, hatchery and feed mill operations in Canton, Bay Springs, Philadelphia, Brooksville and Sebastopol, Mississippi and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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