Foodservice

Hormel opens Nebraska sausage making plant, will hire 350

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January 6, 2021

Hormel Foods Corp. has opened its newest production facility, Papillion Foods, in Papillion, Nebraska, which will make dry sausage products, according to a press release.

Papillion Foods is a 535,000-square-foot facility that Hormel Foods renovated to become a food processing facility that includes sustainability processes, such as automated guided vehicles for product transport throughout the plant, automatic rack assists for lifting objects and LED lighting with motion sensors.

The company will hire nearly 350 team members during the first year of its operations.