Fred Wilkinson, chief editor of The National Provisioner, a publication that serves the meat and poultry industry, recently visited Nicholas Meat to learn about the company and work under way on the Sustainable Resource Facility. The article was published in the October 2022 edition.

From the article:

Building off its history of growth in Pennsylvania’s Sugar Valley, Nicholas Meat LLC is building its Sustainable Resource Facility (SRF), which will dramatically reduce water use for the company’s beef processing operations while generating renewable energy in the form of biogas.

SRF construction, which began in May 2021, is taking place on a 41-acre site directly across the two-lane road from Nicholas Meat’s plant, which began as a 5-acre site that has grown to 26 acres for Nicholas Meat’s processing operations and cattle holding areas.

Chief Executive Officer Gene Nicholas credits the vision for the ambitious sustainability project to his son, Nicholas Meat Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Doug Nicholas.

“All the new things are his ideas,” Gene Nicholas said. “What’s going on now, that’s his dream.”

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