Dorada Foods to Start Poultry-Processing Plant

Dorada Foods will open a poultry processing plant in Ponca city, Oklahoma, US, which will produce about 60 million pounds of chicken products a year.

The facility will occupy part of a Tyson deli meats plant that was closed last year, which Dorada will renovate and equip at a cost of about $25m.

The plant, which will make nuggets and crispy chicken breasts for McDonald’s, is expected reopen in about eight months.

Over the next ten years the plant will contribute $217m to the Ponca City community, according meatpoultry.com.

Dorada is a joint venture between Oklahoma City-based Lopez Foods and Tyson Foods of Springdale, Arkansas.