This article originally comes from the Illinois Business Journal
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American Foods Group opened a new 800,000-square-foot beef processing facility in April in Wright City, Mo., adjacent to Interstate 70 (I-70). The location not only connects the new facility to the St. Louis region but also to the global freight network. The $800 million facility – known as America’s Heartland Packing LLC — was the focus of a FreightWeekSTL panel discussion on June 2 hosted by the St. Louis Regional Freightway.
The virtual session featured Scott Willert who shared information about the operation and the advantages the new beef processing plant gains from being on I-70 in the St. Louis region. Willert is the president of America’s Service Line & America’s Logistics, which provides transportation and logistics services for American Foods Group.
Willert explained the strategic location of the new facility allows for excellent freight mobility in and out via I-70. Cattle are primarily shipped to the facility on trucks through the interstate highway system, as well as the associated packaging equipment needed for shipping outbound products. On average, the beef processing facility receives about 10 trucks of cattle every weekday, with the plant harvesting about 400 cattle per day.
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