Twin City Foods plans to lay off more than 100 Ellensburg-based employees as it prepares to consolidate its Ellensburg and Pasco plants.  

The Ellensburg plant’s processing and repack operations will be shifted to the Pasco facility, the company’s largest processing facility, the company said in a statement.  

“This reflects a shift in customer demand and is part of our ongoing effort to align our manufacturing footprint with current business needs,” the company said, noting the decision wasn’t due to a change in the company’s financial position. 

The Pasco facility at 5405 N. Industrial Way employs more than 375 employees, Twin City Foods told the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business.  

Twin City Foods has operated in Pasco since 1997, and the facility was expanded in 2018 with a repack facility.  

Repack operations will transition to Pasco by Sept. 30, while processing operations will continue through the end of this year’s carrot season, according to the company. Warehousing operations will continue at the Ellensburg site. 

The company said that the consolidation was a difficult decision after more than 60 years in the Ellensburg community, and that Twin City Foods will support affected employees with severance and continued health benefits.   

Twin City Foods filed a worker adjustment and retraining notification, or WARN, notice with the state about laying off 109 employees from its Ellensburg plant starting Nov. 2. Most of the affected workers are members of Teamsters Local Union No. 760. 

The downtown Ellensburg facility at 501 W. Fourth Ave. processes corn, peas and carrots from local farmers into frozen products destined for overseas markets, according to a 2025 video from the Association of Washington Business. The plant employs 160 people.

“Twin City Foods has been here in downtown Ellensburg since ’68,” said plant manager Lucinda Mills in the video. “This facility has been producing peas, corn and carrots for that long. We love it here, and we want to make sure that we extend our doors to the community so they know what we’re doing.” 

During last year’s harvest, the plant processed about 1 million pounds of carrots a day during harvest. The plant’s freezer can store about 45 million pounds of product. 

Twin City Foods announced plans to merge with Smith Frozen Foods in 2024, operating under a new parent company called TCF Holdings Inc.  

Other Twin City Foods facilities include one at 1000 E. First Ave., Kennewick, which is a cold storage and warehousing facility that supports finished-goods and bulk inventory for Pasco’s operations, and in Lake Odessa, Michigan. The company is based in Stanwood.