Peco Foods to set up integrated poultry processing project in US

Poultry processing and packaging company Peco Foods is reportedly planning to establish a new integrated poultry processing project in north-east Arkansas, US.

It will be the company’s second such operation in Arkansas after its entry into the state two years ago with the acquisition of most of Townsends’ assets, including a Batesville processing plant.

As part of the new project, the company intends to construct a new poultry processing facility in Pocahontas, Randolph County, with an investment of $120m.

The plant is expected to commence operations by January 2016.

Accompanying the facility, a hatchery and truck shop will be built at an additional cost of $20m.

In addition, Peco will also construct a feed mill to support its integrated poultry operations.

The $36m feed mill, which will be located approximately 30 miles north-east of the other poultry plants in Corning, and the hatchery will be unveiled in advance of the processing plant.

Peco Foods is a family-owned business with six processing plants, four hatcheries, and five feed mills located in Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas.

It grows, processes, markets and exports poultry products to retail-grocer and food-service markets in the US.