Cargill has confirmed that it is not going to rebuild its meat plant in Booneville, Arkansas, after it was destroyed in an explosion last month.
“The decision to not rebuild in Booneville was agonizing, especially since local and state officials have been very supportive of Cargill staying in the area,” said John O’Carroll, Cargill Value Added Meats president. “We also know that the great people we employed at Booneville will be disappointed as well, although we hope they are well on their way to finding other employment.”
The plant employed 800 people.
CVAM says that building a plant would take up to 22 months, which is much longer than the company originally estimated.
“We need to rebuild the business now to take care of our customers,” O’Carroll said. “We can do that by making use of existing space at other facilities, but not if we waited up to 22 months to build a new plant.”
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By GlobalDataSome Booneville’s production has already been moved to other Cargill facilities. O’Carroll said that CVAM will look to installing new equipment at other plants to increase production at other locations.