Allen Harim Foods gained approval from the Sussex County, Delaware, board of adjustment for its proposal to convert a former Pinnacle Foods pickle plant in Millsboro into a poultry plant. The board approved a special use exemption by a unanimous vote on September 23.
This is the initial part of the approval process for Allen Harim’s plans for the Millsboro facility. Over the next several months, the company will be submitting plans to various Delaware state agencies to obtain final approval of the permits, which are required for the facility to begin operations. Once all the permits have been approved, Allen Harim Foods plans to begin operations in Millsboro in late 2015 or early 2016. The company expects to employ 700 people at the facility.
Allen Harim Foods had previously announced plans to have two plants in one at the Millsboro facility, using one side as a processing plant and the other as a cook plant. The company hopes to use the plant to process a special breed of small chickens used in a ginseng stew popular in Asia.
