March 28, 2022 Group Watch: Koch Foods Finishes $60 Million Attalla Distribution Center
Koch Foods celebrated the opening of a $60 million distribution center in Attalla that will support poultry farmers in northeast Alabama and the surrounding region. Koch Foods announced the project in November 2019, and it continued despite the pandemic. Company officials said the facility will service 100 railcars every two weeks and produce up to 12,500 tons of finished poultry feed a week. The facility employs about 30 people. The center supports more than 200 poultry farmers across 10 counties but mostly in Marshall, DeKalb, Cherokee and Etowah counties. Koch Foods has four integrated poultry facilities in Alabama, employing about 3,700 people.