Hill’s Pet Nutrition plans Emporia plant
Hill’s Pet Nutrition announced Wednesday that it would build a new plant in Emporia, generating 100 manufacturing jobs for Lyon County.
Emporia beat out four other sites, including the company’s headquarters city of Topeka, to land the project.
Others in the running were Gardner, Ottawa and Harrisonville, Mo.
The 300,000-square-foot plant will be on an 80-acre location just south of Norfolk Iron and Metal and a new REG biodiesel plant in western Emporia.
The company is best known for the Science Diet and Prescription Diet pet foods.
The Kansas Legislature passed a bill earlier this year to try to keep a new Hill’s plant in the state.
The legislation offers an income tax break to manufacturers that locate in Kansas by the end of 2009 if they invest at least $100 million in a plant, employ at least 100 people and pay better-than-average wages.
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