Encyclopedia Dubuque
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PROGRESSIVE PROCESSING LLC
PROGRESSIVE PROCESSING LLC. A division of Hormel Foods. Plans by the Austin, Minnesota company to build a plant in Dubuque to produce the company's microwavable Hormel Compleats line were made in 2008. The facility started operations in January, 2010.
A formal grand opening was held on March 30, 2010 for state and local officials. At the time, ninety position had been filled. This was about half of the 180 to 200 jobs the company expected to be filled locally. The plant had enough room to add production lines which could boost employment to three hundred people. The Dubuque plant was the first new production facility the company had constructed in more than twenty-five years.