EEUU: Operations expand at Oregon potato processor
A $30 million investment in the expansion of ConAgra Foods’ Lamb Weston business will expand operations at the facility in Boardman, Oregon.
The investment will add additional processing capacity for making formed products such as hash brown patties and potato puffs.
The addition of the line at the company’s existing facility is expected to add 50 jobs. With continued increases in demand for frozen potato products domestically and internationally, and the increasing popularity of formed products, this capacity increase is necessary to fulfill Lamb Weston’s global growth projections.
Construction on the state-of-the-art processing line is expected to begin in the spring, with completion in 2017. The added line will increase processing capacity by approximately 50 million pounds once complete.
The facility in Boardman is situated to support domestic and international growth, with proximity to prime growing, storage and shipping operations, and easy access to the Port of Morrow.
The company opened an initial expansion of the facility in June, 2014, adding 300 million pounds of capacity with a new fry line. That $200 million project included plans for the addition announced today. Lamb Weston currently employs 390 people in Boardman.
Source: potatobusiness.com
Fuente: http://www.freshplaza.com/article/155220/Operations-expand-at-Oregon-potato-processor
