Food & Agribusiness Manufacturing
Add value near western supply corridors through processing, freezing, packaging, storage, and distribution.
Gallup-McKinley County is targeting food and agribusiness manufacturers whose economics improve when processing, packaging, cold storage, and distribution are planned together. The TradePort can serve as an inland value-added location connecting agricultural inputs from New Mexico and the broader Southwest with consumers and institutional markets along Interstate 40 and throughout the Four Corners.
Companies That Fit
Potential opportunities include frozen and prepared foods, produce washing and packing, ingredient blending, milling and dry-food production, beverage and specialty-food manufacturing, institutional food preparation, and other processors able to operate within available utility and regulatory capacity.
- Cold storage for ingredients, work-in-process inventory, and finished products
- Packaging relationships involving paper, boxes, labels, and other inputs
- I-40 and U.S. 491 access for inbound supply and outbound distribution
- Rail or transload options for suitable bulk inputs and finished products
- Potential shared energy, water, wastewater, refrigeration, and byproduct solutions
Connected to the TradePort Ecosystem
The Prewitt Industrial Cluster creates a distinctive opportunity to explore relationships with McKinley Paper & Packaging Company and future packaging, converting, recovered-fiber, and logistics businesses. Food manufacturers may also co-locate with planned cold-chain capacity or select other TradePort sites based on utilities, labor, transportation, and expansion needs.
Bring Us Your Requirements
Food projects are infrastructure-specific. GGEDC will coordinate early review of water, wastewater, electric and natural-gas loads, refrigeration, food-safety requirements, workforce, inbound supply, outbound markets, and schedule to identify the strongest practical location.