A national egg producer planned to open one of its processing facilities in the Tri-Cities by the end of this year. That timeline has now been pushed back to 2027.

A spokesperson for Versova said the company remains committed to opening a nest run facility in the former Reser’s Fine Foods plant at 5310 Industrial Way in Pasco. The company now expects the facility to be operational in the third quarter of 2027.

“When it launches, we estimate more than 50 million dozen eggs could move through the facility each year,” the spokesperson told the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business, adding that the delay was due to “some things in the business taking a bit longer.”

Versova is a holding company formed in 2016 for a group of family egg farms in Iowa and Ohio, including Centrum Valley Farms, according to the company’s website. Altogether they produce almost 8 billion eggs per year. Their products include fresh shell eggs and egg products, such as egg whites, whole eggs, frozen egg products and sugared and salted yolks.

Their eggs are sold in major retail and grocery stores nationwide, while also supplying other food processors and food service clients.

Versova moved into the Pacific Northwest market in 2021 when it acquired Willamette Egg Farms, its first owned-and-operated egg production facility outside its home states. It currently operates several egg farms between Pasco and Moses Lake.

Versova bought the Pasco facility in late 2024 for just under $15 million. Reser’s built the 110,000-square foot plant in 1998. Reser’s moved its Tri-Cities operations in the summer of 2022 after building a new 340,000-square-foot facility on Capitol Avenue in Pasco.

The facility will serve as a hub to grade, clean and package eggs for the consumer market. Versova officials have said the facility will expand its capacity and flexibility in serving the region. It is not known how many workers will staff the facility.

“When completed, the plant will significantly expand our egg processing capacity, which will create more flexibility in serving our customers and bring greater stability to the egg supply chain,” the company previously stated.