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JBS USA will invest $100 million to acquire and expand a former Hy-Vee production facility in Ankeny.

The plant will become JBS's largest U.S. operation for ready-to-eat sausage and bacon, utilizing products from other JBS plants in Iowa, including one to be built in Perry.

JBS plans to hire 400 workers, potentially including former Hy-Vee employees laid off when the facility closed.

JBS USA says it plans to spend $100 million to buy and expand an Ankeny production facility that Hy-Vee announced in April it was closing.

The Brazilian-owned company said Wednesday, Aug. 13, that it will turn the plant into the giant meatpacker's largest ready-to-eat sausage and bacon operation in the U.S.

It expects to hire 400 workers with an eye to recruiting the laid-off Hy-Vee e

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