Food Processing / Organic Farming
With healthy supplies of land and labor, unrivaled market access, and a very welcoming business environment, Lancaster County is the perfect location for agri-business, food processing, and case-ready packaging companies.
Some of the competitive advantages making Lancaster County the perfect place for your food processing, organic farming, and case-ready packaging operations include:
- Industrial parks and sites ideally suited for your business due to proximity to a Wal-Mart Distribution Center.
- Highly skilled and flexible workforce due to a long tradition of advanced and automated industry and recent downturns in the textile industry.
- Market access that puts you within one day’s drive of more than half the U.S. population.
- A business climate that proves there is no better place do to business.
- Proximity to Clemson University, one of only five academic institutions in the nation to offer degrees in packaging science. Clemson also offers programs in food science and agriculture mechanization and business.
Lancaster is already home to a cluster of food processing and related businesses, including Archer Daniels Midland (soybeans processing), Van Can Corporation (steel cans for food and non-food products), and McClancy Seasoning Company.
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