Big Sandy Meats becoming Hi-Line Packing in Malta

Big Sandy Meats is moving to Malta and is expected to open in mid-November, but renamed to Hi-Line Packing.

Big Sandy Meats owner Jim Dumas said he is moving into a meat processing plant in Malta in a building which has been there since 1917 and started operating as a meat packing plant in 1974.

He said he has been trying to acquire it for the past five years.

“Why now? Because I have been trying to buy this plant for some time now, so the timing is relating when I could get a hold of this plant. The decision to move was a lot of things,” he said. “First, was the inability to expan...