Kraft breaks ground for expansion project
Employees of William Albert Excavating got the expansion project at Kraft Foods underway this past week. Beacon photo by Josie Sellers
COSHOCTON – Construction for the expansion project at Kraft Foods in Coshocton officially started May 4.
“We’re expanding the facility for processing space as well as for warehouse/storage space,” said Joyce Hodel from Kraft. “We expect the first additional production line will start up this summer.”
Most of the outside building work should be completed by October 2015 and the project is expected to be completely finished sometime in the spring of 2016.
The local Kraft plant also has been busy hiring employees.
“We’ve hired approximately 100 employees to date,” Hodel said. “Most of these employees were hired to return our plant to a seven day per week operation. We expect to be fully staffed in the second quarter of 2016.”
Kraft’s Coshocton facility manufactures Oscar Mayer Bacon and it produces the vast majority of bacon for the Oscar Mayer business unit on its production lines. The local plant produces more than 10 different varieties of bacon sold in retail stores. Coshocton City Council, the Coshocton County Commissioners and the Coshocton Port Authority worked together to offer Kraft a package of incentives to help them choose Coshocton for its expansion project.
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