Dole Packaged Foods Opens New Facility

The new site in Georgia will allow the company to provide more nutritious and healthy frozen fruit to its East Coast customers in a timelier manner.

Dole Mc Donough, Ga Plant

Dole Packaged Foods has opened a new 60,000-sq-ft, fully automated frozen fruit facility in McDonough, Ga. With four manufacturing lines, the operations will package frozen fruit for Dole’s East Coast retail, foodservice, and private-label customers. Production has already begun in a phased approach, and the site should be fully operational by this September, with over 100 employees and the ability to produce 60 million lb of frozen fruit annually.

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