National Beef Packing Company has announced that it will invest $8m to expand its boxed beef storage and shipping capabilities at its Liberal facility in Kansas.
The Missouri-based company will add a palletizer, sorters, crane along with new shipping lines as part of the expansion plans.
National Beef vice president and general manager Dennis Boyles said: “Customers increasingly are requesting smaller and lighter boxes.
"This capital project will position us to more efficiently deliver the products customers want, when they want them."
By late spring 2017, the company has scheduled the expanded capabilities to come online.
In June, National Beef had announced to invest over $30m to expand its Dodge City facility.
Headquartered in Missouri’s Kansas City, National Beef has also got facilities in Kansas City (Kansas), Hummels Wharf (Pennsylvania) Moultrie, Georgia and St. Joseph (all in Missouri).
According to the company, it has a workforce of around 7,800 employees and recorded sales revenue of $7.4bn in fiscal year 2015.
It deals with the processing and marketing of fresh beef, caseready beef, wet blue leather along with beef by-products for domestic and international markets.
Starting off as a single beef plant at Dodge City, Kansas in 1992, National Beef claims to have grown into the fourth largest beef producer in the country.
