A southern Indiana company that cooks hard-boiled eggs for restaurants, hospitals, universities and food manufacturers says its proposed $4 million expansion would allow it to become the world's top hard-boiled egg producer, turning out more than 1 million of the eggs a day.
Prime Foods Inc. of Boonville expects the expansion to start this fall and be completed by February. The expansion will add 20,000 square feet to the current 60,000-square-foot Boonville plant about 15 miles east of Evansville.
The company contracts with chicken farms in northern Indiana, Ohio and Georgia to get the eggs and uses huge boiling machines to cook them. Currently, the machines can cook and peel 40,000 boiled eggs each hour. After the expansion, the facility expects to process more than 100,000 eggs an hour, or 1.1 million eggs each day.
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