Elite Foods Builds New Poultry Factory

Elite Foods has announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art poultry processing plant that promises to offer antibiotic free, all-natural, organic poultry.

Based in Marshville, North Carolina, Elite Foods has high hopes for the new plant, which currently employs 60 workers – a figure expected to double within the first three months of opening.

The facility is expected to process 60,000 chickens and 5,000 turkeys weekly. It has been built to support the company’s Alison’s Family Farms line of all-natural poultry products and allowed them to expand the product line to include air chilled, antibiotic free and organic chicken and turkey.

In a statement, Bruce Cuddy president and founder of the company, said: “All of Alison’s Family Farms products are vegetable-fed, antibiotic-free and reared without the use of steroids or growth hormones.”

A significant factor to the company’s success has been the use of innovative techniques such as using a process called air chilling, that limits water retention in poultry and extends shelf life whilst avoiding unnatural substances.

Such innovation has also enabled the new plant to boast greener credentials with the facility using less water in comparison to other poultry processing centers.