Sartori Cheese breaks ground on Plymouth facility

Plymouth-based Sartori Foods Corp. has broken ground on a 115,000-square-foot cheese converting facility. The building will be the first tenant in Plymouth’s new South Industrial Park and is being constructed on a 25-acre parcel with significant expansion room, said Jim Sartori, president and chief executive officer. The company expects to begin working at the new plant in December. The new facility will slice, shred, dice, grate and cut the cheese that Sartori Foods produces in its four cheese plants, Sartori said. "The cheese converting plant is a hub of activity – all of the other facilities feed into it," Sartori said. "It converts the cheese, takes the cheese we manufacture and adds value. And the greatest growth we have is going with converting and value-adding products." Most of the cheese that Sartori Foods slices or shreds to is sold to specialty retailers such as Whole Foods or restaurants. The company already operates an existing cheese converting facility in Plymouth, which it will maintain when the new facility opens. The new facility will have new, state-of-the-art machinery, equipment and designs, Sartori said.