Holland Construction Services has completed construction of a new 87,000-SF food meat slicing and packaging facility for Volpi Foods in Union, Mo.

Designed by Dial Architects, this state-of-the-art plant connects to Volpi’s existing 120,000-SF prosciutto processing plant and will handle the slicing and packaging of Volpi’s artisan-crafted meats.

The facility was a tilt-up project, with 42-foot-tall wall panels cast onsite and then lifted into place with a lattice boom crane. The facility was designed and constructed to meet the unique needs of a modern Italian dry-cured meat producer.

“This project required a significant amount of collaboration between the design firm as well as Volpi to ensure it met their needs,” said Holland senior project manager, Steve Teipe. “The facility needed plenty of room for their freezer and meat processing equipment on the second floor which meant our team had to ensure the building was structurally strong enough to adequately support that weight and function accordingly. Volpi has been ecstatic with the end results.”

Volpi Foods, a fourth-generation producer of specialty dry-cured meats, has operated a facility in the historic Hill neighborhood of St. Louis for 119 years. While the company is maintaining their current location on The Hill, it needed a facility that could accommodate the expanding international demand for their products.

“Holland did an excellent job of keeping us informed on the progress of this project every step of the way while completing it on-time and on-budget,” said president of Volpi Foods, Lorenza Pasetti, “This has been a year of extreme growth for our company, and we are excited for how this added facility will help our business expand in the future.”