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Pennfield Starts New
Egg Processing Plant
Pennfield Corporation’s
Egg Division, the L. M.
Sheaffer Company, has
broken ground to construct a
modern new 31,900 square
foot processing plant and
office building. The new
plant will be located on the
Schoeneck Road at the site of
Pennfield Farms, present
quarters of the processing
complex. The construction is
being handled by Buck-
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Tuesday, Ephrata Mayor
Lloyd Gerhart; Borough
Manager, Carl Fuehrer; and
County Agent, Max M.
Smith, joined Ernest Horn,
Sr., Pennfield Chairman of
the Board; Robert GraybiU,
Pennfield President; and
Don Horn, Egg Division
general manager, to of
ficially turn the first
spadeful of dirt.
Spring of 1975 is set for
completion date of the
complex which will include a
processing and packaging
building, a refrigerated egg
storage area, office quar
ters, employee facilities and
a company store. The store
will provide Pennfield eggs
and poultry products for both
employees and outside
consumers. The present
plant will become an annex
of the complex and will be
used as a dry storage
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The plant will be equipped
with the latest and most
efficient egg processing
equipment available. It will
be fully air conditioned and
will include the latest in
sanitation provisions.
Upon completion, Penn
field’s new plant will more
than double the company’s
egg processing and
packaging capacity. When
operating at maximum
capacity, six million eggs
per week will leave Ephrata
for shipment to the com
pany’s Delaware Valley
market area. The processing
plant will handle the output
of 1.3 million Pennsylvania
chickens.
Eton Horn said the com
pany hoped to achieve better
quality control and more
production efficiency by
combining all egg processing
activity in one location. Upon
completion of the new
facility, the processing plant
now in operation on Chestnut
Street in Ephrata will be
sold.
HKe First
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of StnaAbun^
Lancaster County Agricultural
Agent Max Smith, left, Pennfield
president Robert Graybiil, and
Pennfield board chairman Ernest
Horn, Sr, were among the dignitaries
attending a groundbreaking
ceremony Tuesday for a new egg
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct. 5,1974
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Ephrata. Pennfield’s egg division, L.
M. Shaeffer Co., will process all its
eggs at the farm upon completion of
the plant. Eggs from contract growers
are now processed in a downtown
Ephrata plant
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