SOPAKCO has opened a new plant in NC; http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/article ... 422610.txt
Something to note is that they have pulled a Wornick and have started production on heat and eat plastic bowls.
SOPAKCO opens new plant
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SOPAKCO opens new plant
You can pick your friends
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and you can pick your nose
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Re: SOPAKCO opens new plant
From reading the article (I pasted it in below), it looks like they're just adding another facility at their current Mullins, South Carolina, location.
Also, from the sound of it - "heat-and-serve meals packaged in microwavable plastic bowls and trays" - that kind of sounds more like the commercial stuff you'd find in the grocery store, like those Hormel meals. At least, that's what I'm hoping - hoping they're not planning on screwing up their MRE business like Wornick did.
Also, from the sound of it - "heat-and-serve meals packaged in microwavable plastic bowls and trays" - that kind of sounds more like the commercial stuff you'd find in the grocery store, like those Hormel meals. At least, that's what I'm hoping - hoping they're not planning on screwing up their MRE business like Wornick did.
MRE maker creating 80 jobs in rural S.C. county
Saturday, November 14, 2009
MULLINS, S.C. (AP) — A company that processes and packages ready-to-eat meals is expanding its South Carolina operations, creating roughly 80 jobs in a county struggling with high unemployment.
SOPAKCO officials announced the opening Thursday of a new, 20,000-square-foot facility in Mullins. Hiring has begun.
The 66-year-old company, headquartered in Mullins, is among the world’s largest producers of the U.S. military’s ready-to-eat meals. The new facility cost more than $10 million. Workers there will design, prepare and package heat-and-serve meals packaged in microwavable plastic bowls and trays.
The production facility is the company’s third in South Carolina; two are in Mullins and the other is in Bennettsville.
Rural Marion County had the state’s third-highest unemployment in September, at 21 percent.
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Re: SOPAKCO opens new plant
The bowls seem to be aimed exactly at the Hormel-type consumer products. http://www.sopakco.com/bowls.html
They also have a video of their new plant that shows Nutrisystem meals being packaged; http://viewdm.com/SOPAKCO_Spot/
They also have a video of their new plant that shows Nutrisystem meals being packaged; http://viewdm.com/SOPAKCO_Spot/
You can pick your friends
and you can pick your nose
but you can't roll your friends into little green balls!
and you can pick your nose
but you can't roll your friends into little green balls!
Re: SOPAKCO opens new plant
That answers the question as to 
where Wornick's Nutrisystem contract went ...
where Wornick's Nutrisystem contract went ... Big Galloot wrote:They also have a video of their new plant that shows Nutrisystem meals being packaged; http://viewdm.com/SOPAKCO_Spot/