At the ground breaking are from left, Fred Keller, operations manager, Pennfleld
Corporation; Don Horn Jr., director, human resources, Pennfleld Corporation; Bob
Buehler Sr., VP, ag products dlv., Pennfleld Corporation; Mike Horn, president and
CEO. Pennfleld Corporation; Peter Karamanoils, president, Hough® International,
Inc.; Richard Mortimer, sales manager, Hough® International, Inc.; and Evan Mann,
South Montrose mill manager, Pennfleld Corporation.
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Pennfield Corporation
Breaks Ground
For Maj
SOUTH MONTROSE
Ground was broken in this small
Northern Pennsylvania com
munity on April 21 for a major ex
pansion of Lancaster, PA - based
Pennfield Corporation’s livestock
feed manufacturing plant
According to Pennfield Presi
dent and Chief Executive Officer
Mike Ham the facility will be
built on the site of an existing mill
owned by the company. Horn said
the new South Montrose Feed
Mill will “cost $6 million to con
struct and will be one of the most
technologically-advanced and
most environmentally-friendly
mills in North America.
“Pennfield prides itself in being
a good corporate neighbor,” Horn
told the local government offi
cials, citizens and members of the
media gathered at the ground
breaking. adding, “It is our desire
to become an asset to the South
Montrose area and to the areas of
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Northern Pennsylvania and New
York which this mill will serve.”
Horn, who is the grandson of
one of the founders of Pennfield
Corporation, said that sales from
the South Montrose Mill, which
are projected to be $5 million in
1999, should increase to $2O mil
lion per year in the future as Penn
field plans to become “The
dominant supplier of dairy feeds
to farmers in the mill’s Pennsylva
nia and New York service areas.”
“Pennfield is in the forefront of
producing nutritional livestock
feeds to help fanners maximize
their income through greater milk
production.” Horn said. “By keep
ing our dairy farmers profitable
we are assuring the American
Consumer the highest quality food
source at the most affordable cost
in the world today.”
Construction of the South
Montrose Mill expansion project
should be completed by December
1999. Horn told those attending.
adding that employ
ment at the facility
should double from 16
to 32 persons over the
next scrvcral years.
Pennfield also oper
ates two feed mills in
Lancaster County, at
Hempfield and Mt. Joy
and one in Blair Coun
ty, at Martinsburg,
which serves the west
ern part of Pennsylvania
and neighboring states.
The Corporation owns a
broiler breeder opera
tion in North Carolina
and has recently entered
into several partner
ships in Virginia to in
troduce Pennfield Feeds
to farmers in that state.
Founded in 1971 by
the merger of two local
feed companies, D.E.
Horn & Company and
Miller & Bushong,
Pennfield Corporation
has grown from a small
local company to a ma
jor regional agri-busi
ness concern with over
700 employees. In addi
tion to Pennfield Feeds,
which manufactures
dairy, horse, and spe
cially feeds, the Cor
poration also produces
and markets chicken
products under the
Pennfield Farms and
Amish Select labels,
and distributes meats
and other food products
to grocery stores, hotels
and restaurants through
its Ritter/Goodhart food
service subsidiaries.
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