Shearers Foods Moving Forward with New $66 Million Food Plant in Ohio

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Family-owned Shearers Foods (Brewster, Ohio) has broken ground on a new snack food plant in Massillon, Ohio. Shearer, the nation's leader in kettle-cooked potato chips, is constructing a 150,000-square-foot building on a 14-acre site in the Nova Technology Park that will contain the company's headquarters, production and warehouse operations, as well as new product development facilities. The Massillon facility will also be the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) Gold Certified food manufacturing plant in Ohio. Shearer's plans call for the facility to be operational by the summer of 2009.

Architectural services for the new facility are being provided by John Picard (Canton, Ohio), and the project's general contractor is Schumacher Construction Company (Massillon, Ohio).

Shearer's operations in Ohio include a manufacturing plant in Brewster and a distribution center in Massillon. The company also has a manufacturing plant in Lubbock, Texas.

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