Smithfield Foods, Kansas City Sausage Open State-of-the-Art Sausage Plant
Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., and Kansas City Sausage, LLC, Kansas City, Mo., announced construction of a $44.8 million, 90,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art sausage plant in Sampson County, N.C. The project represents the 50/50 joint venture between Smithfield and Kansas City Sausage, and is expected to create 177 new jobs.
The plant will produce 50 million pounds of pork sausage annually and will be a comprehensive operation—from live animal harvest through finished product shipping—processing between 700 to 1,000 sows a day.