Tyler Meat Packer John Soules Foods Expanding Texas Plant

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Privately held foodservice, restaurant, and retail meat products provider, John Soules Foods Incorporated (Tyler, Texas), is currently expanding its meat cooking and packing plant in Tyler, Texas.

Back in June of this year, Industrialinfo.com reported that the company was scheduling to break ground on the first phase of the $35 million, three-phase project that will increase the plant's capacity to produce fully-cooked meat products. Plans call for the addition of a 120,000 square foot building addition and the installation of a new hi-speed cooking and packaging line along with two new spiral freezers. The new line will have the capacity to produce 10,000 pounds of cooked meat products per hour.

Boone & Boone Construction Incorporated (Tyler, Texas) is providing construction management duties for the $9 plus million first phase of the project, and Gilbert Project Services (Cleveland, Georgia) is laying out the internal processing and packaging line configurations. Equipment vendors will be responsible for installing the majority of the processing equipment.

Construction on the first phase of the project is expected to be completed by late 2005 and the additional phases will be implemented over the next six years. Supplementary phases include a warehouse addition and the installation of two more fully-cooked product production lines.

John Soules Foods is recognized as a leading producer of high quality value-added meat products since 1975. The company owns and operates a state-of-the-art 100,000 square foot USDA Inspected processing facility in Tyler, Texas. It distributes a diversified product mix to foodservice distributors, multi-unit restaurant groups, and retail markets.