Food industry news : Tyson Foods, a leading US meat processing company will build a new chicken production facility in Humboldt in Gibson County, Tennessee with an investment of over $300 million to help the company address the strong consumer demand for its chicken products.

Originally, the Tyson Foods poultry production plant was supposed to be built near Tonganoxie in Leavenworth County, Kansas. But the meat processing giant had to back off from its plans following fierce opposition from thousands of Tonganoxie residents.

Tyson Foods, which has been forced to look for alternatives for its new poultry processing factory has settled to build it in the City of Humboldt. The poultry processing plant is expected to create over 1,500 jobs once it begins its chicken processing operations in late 2019.

Commenting on the upcoming Tyson Foods poultry factory in Humboldt, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam said:  “I want to thank Tyson Foods for choosing Humboldt as the location for its new operations and for creating 1,500 new jobs in Gibson County.

“The new facility will be Tyson’s fifth location in Tennessee and it means a great deal that a company of this magnitude continues to grow its footprint in our state. I appreciate Tyson for its continued commitment to Tennessee and for helping us get one step closer to our goal of making Tennessee the No. 1 location in the Southeast for high quality jobs.”

Tyson Foods plans to use the Humboldt poultry plant for producing pre-packaged trays of fresh chicken which in turn will head to various retail grocery stores in the US.

The Tyson Foods poultry processing plant will be designed to process 1.25 million birds per week, which would boost the overall production capacity of the US food processing company by the same figure.

Doug Ramsey, the Group President of Tyson Foods’ poultry unit, commenting on the new chicken processing factory said: “Our company has been successfully producing chicken in Tennessee for more than 45 years, so we’re pleased to expand our presence in the state with this major investment.

“We’re grateful for the invitation to become part of Humboldt and Gibson County. The location is attractive to us because of the strong support we’ve received from state and local leaders, the existing industrial park and availability of labor, as well as access to feed grains produced in the region.”

The chicken production complex of Tyson Foods will house a poultry processing plant, hatchery, and a feed mill among others which will be constructed around Humboldt.

The Tyson Foods chicken processing plant will come up in the Gibson County Industrial Park located near Humboldt. Tyson Foods plans to collaborate with area farmers who will raise chickens that will be processed at the new poultry processing plant.

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