J. M. Smucker Co. Manufacturing Facility and Distribution Center
The J. M. Smucker Co. Manufacturing Facility and Distribution Center is a planned facility for the Orrville, Ohio-based food manufacturer J. M. Smucker Co. on a 225-acre site at 7351 Old Tuscaloosa Highway in the JeffMet McCalla industrial park in McCalla.
The $1.1 billion facility, touted as "the largest capital investment in the county's history," was announced in 2021. Site preparation began that November.
The facility, which is expected to employ 750 people, is designed to manufacture, package and distribute Smucker's "Uncrustables" line of frozen sealed crustless sandwiches. It acquired that line through the acquisition of MenUSAver Inc. of West Fargo, North Dakota in 1998 and developed it into a blockbuster product which surpassed $500 million in sales in 2022. The McCalla plant builds on the capacity of an earlier dedicated plant in Scottsville, Kentucky.