Andalusia gets $400,000 grant for Conecuh Sausage plant

ANDALUSIA, Ala. (WSFA) - Gov. Kay Ivey awarded Andalusia a grant this week to help with a major city expansion.

Last February, the city broke ground on a new plant for Conecuh Sausage. Now, the company is getting more funds to help get the job done.

The family-owned business began in Evergreen in 1947. Now, the southern staple’s market is expanding past what it can produce, so it’s adding this new plant one county over to meet demands.

“We know about it around here. It’s a great Alabama product. But now it’s beginning to become a Texas product, South Carolina product, all of the Southeast. Well, if it’s good there, it’s going to be good nationwide, so what a great opportunity for Andalusia to be on the ground floor of this potentially exponential growth that the future holds for Conecuh Sausage,” said Andalusia city administrator John Thompson.

This more than 100,000-square-foot facility is being built in the Andalusia industrial park.

Ivey awarded the project a $400,000 grant this week, which will be used to provide sewer service and public water to the plant.

This plant will also have the latest technology, allowing Conecuh Sausage to optimize production.

“It is also going to be a lot more efficient,” Thompson said. “So it will have the latest in terms of all of the equipment that they’ll have in it, making the sausage and making their brand, and doing all of the things they need to do to have a better product.”

The city of Andalusia hopes to have this project completed by late spring or early summer and be producing that famous Conecuh sausage by June.

The plant will employ a minimum of 50 people, but Thompson anticipates the plant to create as many as 120 jobs.

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