{"id":49110,"date":"2016-11-03T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/english-goya-foods-opens-state-of-the-art-and-sustainable-production-facility-in-new-jersey\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T14:52:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T18:52:22","slug":"goya-foods-inaugura-planta-de-produccion-moderna-y-sustentable-en-nueva-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/goya-foods-inaugura-planta-de-produccion-moderna-y-sustentable-en-nueva-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Goya Foods Opens State-Of-The-Art And Sustainable Production Facility In New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">JERSEY CITY, New Jersey<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 3, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<b>Goya Foods<\/b>, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> celebrating its 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, opens a 240,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art and sustainable production facility in <span class=\"xn-location\">Secaucus, New Jersey<\/span> as part of a <span class=\"xn-money\">$250 million<\/span> investment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg3d20leftMSAsset810313\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\" assettitle=\"Goya---New-Factory\" hostedurl=\"https:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20161025\/435482\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg3d20leftMSAsset810313\" title=\"Goya Foods Opens State-Of-The-Art And Sustainable Production Facility In New Jersey\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Goya Foods Opens State-Of-The-Art And Sustainable Production Facility In New Jersey\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20161025\/435482\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The facility, equipped to manufacture and distribute over 4 million cases of Goya products annually, features new production machinery with cutting edge technology, including a continuous motion line that produces 600 boxes of Goya&#8217;s rice mixes per minute, six times faster than the company&#8217;s past production capability.\u00a0 &#8220;The opening of our new production facility in <span class=\"xn-location\">Secaucus<\/span>, along with our current headquarters in <span class=\"xn-location\">Jersey City<\/span>, not only enables us to operate more efficiently and cost effectively but most importantly, extends 80 years of Goya&#8217;s heritage in providing our consumers with authentic, high quality and affordable Latin products,&#8221; says <span class=\"xn-person\">Bob Unanue<\/span>, President of Goya Foods.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Committed to the construction of environmentally sustainable and eco-friendly facilities, Goya&#8217;s new facility is also equipped with 6,552 solar panels on 3.7 acres of rooftop to generate over 70% of the building&#8217;s energy supply and provide a net zero carbon foot-print.\u00a0 Goya is currently working on the installation of rail service, located alongside the facility, which will significantly reduce transportation costs, traffic congestion and fuel consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of Goya&#8217;s new facility reinforces the company&#8217;s role as an important and long standing member of <span class=\"xn-location\">New Jersey&#8217;s<\/span> business community and ensures the retention of over 61 existing local jobs and 16 new positions.\u00a0 In total, Goya has 26 facilities and employs over 4,500 people throughout <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Dominican Republic<\/span> and Spain.\u00a0 In 2014-2015, Goya opened up four new facilities in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Georgia<\/span> and the company&#8217;s current headquarters in Jersey City.\u00a0 Goya&#8217;s cutting edge, high tech facilities will maintain its mission to produce over 2,500 authentic and affordable products with premium quality and superior taste to national and global markets.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><b>For more information about Goya Foods, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.goya.com<\/a>.\u00a0To schedule a press tour and interview, please contact <span class=\"xn-person\">Natalie Maniscalco<\/span> at <a href=\"mailto:Natalie@retromedianyc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Natalie@retromedianyc.com<\/a> or at 845.659.6506.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>About GOYA:<\/i><\/b><i> Founded in 1936, Goya Foods, Inc. is America&#8217;s largest Hispanic-owned food company, and has established itself as the leader in Latin American food and condiments. Goya manufactures, packages, and distributes over 2,500 high-quality food products from <span class=\"xn-location\">Spain<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Caribbean<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, Central and <span class=\"xn-location\">South America<\/span>. Goya products have their roots in the culinary traditions of Hispanic communities around the world; the combination of authentic ingredients, robust seasonings and convenient preparation makes Goya products ideal for every taste and every table. For more information on Goya Foods, please visit <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>www.goya.com<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><b>Press Contact: <br \/><\/b><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Natalie Maniscalco<\/span><br \/><\/b><b><a href=\"mailto:Natalie@retromedianyc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Natalie@retromedianyc.com<\/a><br \/><\/b><b>845.659.6506<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg8bb8left\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg8bb8left\" title=\"Goya Foods Opens State-Of-The-Art And Sustainable Production Facility In New Jersey\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Goya Foods Opens State-Of-The-Art And Sustainable Production Facility In New Jersey\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20140904\/143145\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Photo &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20161025\/435482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20161025\/435482<\/a> <br \/>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20140904\/143145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20140904\/143145<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">JERSEY CITY, New Jersey<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 3, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<b>Goya Foods<\/b>, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> celebrating its 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, opens a 240,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art and sustainable production facility in <span class=\"xn-location\">Secaucus, New Jersey<\/span> as part of a <span class=\"xn-money\">$250 million<\/span> investment.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div id=&quot;prni_dvprnejpg3d20leftMSAsset810313&quot; style=&quot;TEXT-ALIGN:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comida-y-bebida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}