Seaboard Foods, Triumph Foods Form JV, Build New Pork Processing Plant
Seaboard Foods, Shawnee Mission, Kan., and Triumph Foods, St. Joseph, Mo., formed a joint venture with equal ownership to construct a new pork processing facility in Sioux City, Iowa, with site work expected to begin this summer and construction completed by July 2017.
The plant is expected to process about 3 million market hogs annually, operating a single shift and employing approximately 1,100 people, including approximately 200 salaried positions and 900 hourly production positions. The plant will be built on property in the Bridgeport West Industrial Park in Sioux City, located north of the Sioux Gateway Airport along the Missouri River.