Investments in Our Future
Perdue Farms continues to make investments in our operations to meet customer demand and improve operational excellence.
In Perdue AgriBusiness, we are investing in new state-of-the-art extractors at our oilseed crushing facilities in Chesapeake, Va., and Salisbury, Md., where soybean oil is extracted from bean flakes to produce soybean meal and crude soy oil. We anticipate start-up in Chesapeake in fall 2023 and in Salisbury in summer 2024.
We’re also investing in the expansion of our soybean oil refinery facility in Salisbury, Md., to increase production by 30 percent to meet customer demand. Concurrently, we are expanding oil refining capacity, increasing oil storage and upgrading rail and truck transportation capacity and efficiency.
In Bowersville, Ga., we are doubling our organic oil refinery capacity through capital investments to reduce reliance on tolling providers and improve economies of scale. Once the expansion project is completed, Bowersville will be the largest U.S. organic refinery, and support our sustainability efforts.
In Perdue Foods, we invested more than $30 million in auto-deboning technology at our harvest operations in Cromwell, Ky., Rockingham, N.C., and Georgetown, Del.
In Sioux City, Iowa, we invested $48 million to expand our case-ready pork operations and increase deboning capacity to meet customer demand and improve efficiency.
