The PIER (Plant-based food Ingredients to be Egg Replacers) project aims to replace 10% of the eggs used globally as ingredients in food products such as baked goods, dressings, desserts and ready meals.
The company’s facility in Seymore, Ind. will build upon key learnings and successes from Vital Farms’ egg washing and packing facility in Springfield, Mo., which opened in 2017.
Vital Farms’ 2022 expansion of its egg washing and packing facility, Egg Central Station, in Springfield, Mo., has been awarded LEED Gold Certification for New Construction and Major Renovations.
The company has a definitive agreement to acquire a broiler processing plant, hatchery and feed mill in Dexter, Mo., that were recently closed by Tyson Foods, Inc.
The assets to be acquired, subject to the completion of this transaction, include commercial shell egg production and processing facilities with current capacity of approximately 1.2 million laying hens, primarily cage-free, feed mill, pullets, fertilizer production and composting operation and land located in Erda, Utah.
