Kerry Opens Upgraded Coatings Plant in Georgia to Meet High Demand for Breaded Products
Kerry has opened an upgraded and renovated coating production facility in Rome, Georgia. As one of North America’s most innovative facilities of its kind, the newly expanded Rome site provides significant capacity, advanced capabilities and customized coating solutions to help foodservice and retail customers deliver great tasting products that win in the coated poultry, seafood, appetizer and alternative meat categories.
A total of $125 million has been invested to update the 360,000-square-foot manufacturing facility—Kerry’s largest capital investment to date. Offering the highest standards of food safety and quality systems, the facility provides state-of-the-art production capacity across Japanese breadcrumb (panko-style), cracker meal and breader blends. The new Japanese breadcrumb and cracker meal production lines are now up and running and the blending lines will be complete later this year.