Tyson Vernon Capacity Expansion

Project Overview

This project was comprised of extensive structural demolition and rebuild of the 70-year-old building while maintaining the daily operations in the Tyson plant, including:

• Successful phasing and construction of temporary food grade partitions in order to maintain separation between construction and plant operations
• A temporary meat rail support structure built to reroute product and avoid production impact
• Renovation of an existing pork belly storage room to a cooler press room
• Re-purposing of an existing bacon freezer to a pressed pork belly storage room
• Renovation of a -20-degree finished goods freezer to a pressed palletized belly storage area and food grade -20 freezer
• Construction of a new retail snack line and packaging room
• New utility services including electrical, compressed air, and ammonia refrigeration to feed the new process equipment
• Build out of an existing storage area into a smokehouse
• Trash dock addition to reroute plant traffic for a more hygienic flow