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 LeFiell Completes Project for Smithfield FoodsRENO, Nev. Aug. 6, 2007 — LeFiell Company of Reno, Nev., announced today completion of an overhead rail and conveyor system for Smithfield Foods’ newest plant in Kingston, N.C. The project consists of an overhead rail system with 3,000 pound capacity rail switches, an indexing conveyor, blast chill conveyors and a customized drop track system, in Smithfield’s Virginia ham and boneless ham operations. The Kingston plant is Smithfield’s second plant in the city and their newest operation. Smithfield Foods is the world’s largest pork product processor and is on the exclusive list of Fortune’s America’s Most Admired Companies. According to Joe Gonzales, vice president of operations at LeFiell, Smithfield and LeFiell have worked together since Smithfield’s inception in 1936 as the original Smithfield Packing plant in Smithfield, Va. LeFiell, the world leader in overhead rail systems for the meat processing industry, has been in business since 1910. Now, LeFiell Company is a precision engineering, fabricating and manufacturing company based in Reno, Nev., near the Reno-Stead Airport. The company is a worldleading provider of meat processing equipment ranging from slaughterhouse equipment to overhead rail systems. LeFiell overhead rail systems are also used in the industrial laundry, manufacturing and industrial painting trades. For more information about LeFiell, contact them at (775) 677-5300 or on the web at www.lefiellco.com. |
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