Iowa Premium Beef Plant In Tama, IA Prepares To Launch Operations
October 22, 2014 | 1 min to read
TAMA | A resuscitated beef plant at 2227 L Ave. in Tama resembled a hive Thursday morning, as workers busied themselves on finishing up work for an Iowa Premium Beef facility that is due to open by the end of the month.
CEO Jeffrey Johnson guided a group of about 30 media and other visitors through every part of the project, which he said will cost around $48.6 million by the time it’s done.
The new plant, designed to source as much as 800 heads of beef primarily from a 150-mile radius around this central Iowa town, is expected to provide jobs for more than 600 workers when it opens and will increase its workforce to more than 1,000 as production ramps up over a 20-month period, the company said.
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