Novi, Michigan, U.S.A.-based Lineage Logistics has announced it is building a 200,000-square-foot cold storage facility in Windsor, Colorado, U.S.A. for meat-processing giant JBS.
Lineage Logistics has designed an automated facility that will provide JBS with expanded blast-freezing and storage capacity, as well as rail access to support the shipment of export products to ports located on the U.S. West Coast, Lineage said in a press release.
The new facility will be built on land purchased by Lineage within the 3,000-acre Great Western Industrial Park (GWIP). Owned and operated by rail and real estate developer The Broe Group, the strategic GWIP site will be rail-served by The Broe Group’s transportation affiliate, OmniTRAX, which owns and operates a network of 24 regional and shortline railroads across North America.
OmniTRAX will design, build, and operate a custom intermodal rail solution for the new facility that unlocks bulk shipment efficiency and enables worldwide reach, according to Lineage.
”This is an exciting project for our company that supports not just our efforts to provide high-quality food for families around the world, but also our longstanding commitment to the state of Colorado,” JBS USA CEO Tim Schellpeper said.“The new state-of-the-art facility strengthens our longterm, successful partnership with Lineage, streamlines our supply chain to benefit customers and improves efficiencies, all while benefitting this region through job creation and local investment.”
São Paulo, Brazil-based JBS has increased its focus on the seafood and cultured meat markets in the past year, acquiring Huon Aquaculture, Australia’s second-largest salmon producer, last August.
And late last year, JBS entered into an agreement to acquire control of Spanish company BioTech Foods, a developer of biotechnology for producing cultivated protein. The company said it would spend USD 100 million (EUR 91 million) to build a new plant in Spain to scale up production and will establish Brazil’s first cultivated protein research and development center.
Lineage worked closely with JBS and the town of Windsor and Upstate Colorado Economic Development to secure the project, it said.
The public-private collaboration will produce a USD 102.9 million (EUR 95 million), 10-year net fiscal benefit to Windsor, which will support further economic development of the region, including the creation of 80 permanent jobs, Lineage said.
The construction of the facility is expected to be complete in 2023.
Photo courtesy of Lineage Logistics
