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Trim-Rite Plans to Add Pork Plant
(October 2004) Trim-Rite Inc., Carpentersville, Illinois, plans to build a $9.5 million pork slaughtering and processing plant in Winnebago County in north-central Illinois within the next two years, according to the Rockford Register Star newspaper. When the plant is completed, it will slaughter approximately 2,000 hogs per day and initially hire 150 people. Eventually, the plant will employ 600-800 workers, the newspaper said.

Kim Huntley, owns and operates a pig farm in the area, said the proposed facility could possibly eliminate extra expense from shipping his hogs hundreds of miles to Austin, Minn. "It would be a positive thing to have a local hog facility," he was quoted in the newspaper article.

James Jendruczek, president and managing partner of Trim-Rite, emphasized that the plant won't produce any odor. The company wouldn't release the location of the site, pending the purchase of the land, which is already zoned for light-industrial business. The company also plans to buy hogs from as many local farmers as it can. Local farmers have faced higher costs to ship their pigs to processors Rochelle Foods stopped slaughtering in January 2003.

Construction could begin next summer. Jendruczek hopes the plant will open by spring 2006.

Trim-Rite Moves Into New Plant
(March 2002)  Without missing a beat in its operations, Trim-Rite Food Corporation moved into its new, state-of-the-art plant on March 4, 2002.  Located in Carpentersville, IL, the 75,000 square foot facility includes a cutting edge freezer system to maintain product freshness and improved technical infrastructure to increase employee communication and productivity.  Trim-Rite is proud to be a new member of the Carpentersville, IL, business community and looks forward to many years of success ahead.

Trim-Rite Closes Former Addison Plant
(March 2002)  On March 1, 2002, Trim-Rite Food Corporation closed the doors of the Addison, IL, plant it had called home since 1991.  Company growth and success were the catalyst that prompted a need for more capacity and improved plant equipment.  They will reopen for business at their new, improved plant in Carpentersville, IL, on March 4, 2002.  Trim-Rite thanks the people and businesses of Addison, IL, for their support and hospitality. 

Addison-based Meat Processor Gets Backing on Plans for Facility
(October 2000)  The Carpentersville Plan Commission has recommended approval of a special-use permit that would enable a meat processor to build an office and industrial facility in the Spring Hill Center for Commerce & Industry.  [full story]

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