Dole Opens New Frozen Fruit Facility in Georgia, the Company's Third in the U.S.
Plant is expected to facilitate distribution of Dole frozen products on the east coast.
Dole Foods has opened a new state-of-the-art frozen fruit facility in McDonough, Georgia, Dole's third frozen fruit facility in the United States, complimenting the existing operations in Atwater, California, and Decatur, Michigan. The new facility is approximately 60,000 square feet, fully automated and will have four manufacturing lines which when at capacity can produce 60 million pounds of frozen fruit annually. The operations will package frozen fruit for Dole's retail, food service and private label customers on the east coast.
Production has begun in a phased approach and should be fully operational by September 2021. When at full speed the facility will employ over 100 Dole associates and will run three shifts. Dole has partnered with United States Cold Storage who will handle the warehousing and distribution in an adjacent building with a state-of-the-art automated storage/retrieval system.