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Swift meat packing plant in La Plata, Argentina, c. 1920 1916 advertisement for lard. Swift & Company operations can be traced back to 1855, when 16-year-old Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a butchering operation in Eastham, Massachusetts. [2]
The plant was remodeled and rebuilt between 1950 and 1952. In 1953, the Floyd River flooded, extensively damaging the plant, along with the nearby Cudahy and Armour facilities, the railroad yards, and the stock pens. [3] [4] Swift closed the facility in 1974, citing a design that did not meet current standards for packing plants.
The Swift Packing Plant was a division of Swift and Company located at South 27th and Q Streets in South Omaha, Nebraska. The plant was opened in 1887 and closed in 1969. [ 1 ] It covered approximately eight square blocks and consisted of several brick and stone buildings, and was located in proximity to the Omaha Stockyards .
The location has gotten the Hollywood treatment twice: Not only was it featured as the CD Bar in the Chuck Norris-starring Walker, Texas Ranger, ... Swift Armour Meat Packing Plant.
A view of the Swift Brands Sioux City, Iowa, meat-packing plant, circa 1917. All but one of the refrigerator cars in the photo bear the markings of the Swift Refrigerator Line. The meat packing plants of Chicago were among the first to utilize assembly line (or in this case, disassembly-line) production techniques. [7]
Hanging room, Armour's packing house, Chicago, 1896 Postcard of the Armour Packing Plant in Fort Worth, undated. Armour and Company had its roots in Milwaukee, where in 1863 Philip D. Armour joined with John Plankinton (the founder of the Layton and Plankinton Packing Company in 1852) to establish Plankinton, Armour and Company.
Fort Worth-based Standard Meat Co. is planning to renovate a nearly 70-year-old building near the Stockyards to convert it into a specialized packing plant.
In 2007, JBS went through with a US$225m acquisition of U.S. firm Swift & Company, [12] which was the third largest U.S. beef and pork processor, renamed as JBS USA. It leads the world in slaughter capacity, at 51.4 thousand head per day, and continues to focus on production operations, processing, and export plants, nationally and internationally.