Perdue Farms Expanding Kentucky Plant, Contractor Identified

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Privately held poultry processor, Perdue Farms Incorporated (Salisbury, Maryland) is expanding their poultry processing plant Cromwell, Kentucky. (Plant 1021560)

The seven-year-old poultry plant processes roughly 150,000 birds per day, and Perdue needs more room for product storage and shipping dock space.

Perdue called on leading food plant designer/builder Suitt Construction Company (Greenville, North Carolina) to engineer a structural addition that would add about 32,000 square feet of building, cooler & dock space to handle the production volume.

Ground was broken last week on a $4 million two-story structure that will be configured with 16,000 square feet of space per floor. The top floor will house a dry cooler with storage racking throughout and the bottom floor will provide a wet cooler and additional shipping docks.

Grading and site preparation work is currently underway in Cromwell and completion of the project is expected by May 15, 2004.

Founded in 1920 in Salisbury, Maryland, Perdue Farms Incorporated is a leading international food and agricultural business with customers in more than 40 countries. The company produces quality branded poultry products for domestic and international retail and food service customers. Perdue Farms is privately held and has been a family run company for three generations.