An Iowa-based producer of food-grade stocks, broths and fats used by a variety of food producers is expanding to North Georgia with plans to build a $100 million plant in Dalton.
Essentia Protein Solutions, a global producer of animal protein solutions for the food and beverage industry, announced Tuesday that it will build a broth manufacturing plant in the Carbondale Business Park in Dalton to expand its production beyond its three facilities in Iowa.
“We’ve been focused for the past 30-plus years on clean-label protein solutions for other businesses, and you can find our proteins across a wide variety products in your supermarket, whether it be Campbell’s or Progresso soup or many other foods,” Corey Jansen, president and CEO of Essentia North America, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “Our business has been growing as more and more consumers want clean-label and protein ingredients in the food they eat.”
According to Essentia’s website, clean-label protein is, “Derived from natural meat and bone raw materials and manufactured using only a minimum of thermal and mechanical processing …”.
Jansen said Essentia began looking for another production site a few years ago and finally decided upon Dalton based upon its centralized location, its proximity to abundant chicken supplies in the poultry belt and the availability of production workers to staff the new plant.