Pennexx Foods, a provider of case-ready meat to retail supermarkets in the Northeast US, has completed its move into its recently acquired 145,000ft² facility in Philadelphia.
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The company purchased the Philadelphia facility in April of this year, and has now closed its Pottstown operations and moved all of its processing equipment into the new plant.
The Pottstown plant grew increasingly inadequate for the Pennexx’ needs because of its limiting size. Also, the company claims that “the landlord failed to make required improvements to the Pottsown property”, which led to claims and counterclaims in lease litigation, which has been pending for almost two years.
In late June 2002 the judge in the lease litigation issued an order requiring Pennexx to vacate the Pottstown plant.
“Before reaching a point where our commitments to our customers suffered, we decided to accelerate our relocation timetable from August to early July,” said Mike Queen, president and CEO of Pennexx. “At this point, having transferred and installed existing processing machinery and relocated nearly all of our employees, we will initially be occupying 75,000ft² of the new facility.”
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By GlobalDataQueen concluded, “We are on schedule to install our new customised automation equipment and to complete renovations of the unoccupied part of the facility by the end of October.
“Once the consolidation into our new facility is complete, we anticipate the combination of the larger space and new state-of-the-art equipment will improve production flow, reduce our labour costs and improve overall yields.”
