Greencor Composites LLC

Hanover Foods Corporation is a state-of-the-art tomato past processing facility. It produces both conventional and organic tomato paste products.Back to top

Greencor Composites LLC is a particle board and door core manufacturing plant which utilizes rice straw as the raw material. Back to top

Tristar Brick & Block, Inc.

A wild rice and specialty grain processing facility. Does all types of rice blending, milling, processing, packaging and par boiling. Back to top

Tristar Brick & Blocks, Inc. produces a full line of concrete brick and block products for construction and landscaping. Back to top

Colusa Rice Company

Colusa Milling Company

Colusa Rice Company is a rice drying and storage company with a grower base of 50, doing business with all major California mills. Back to top

Colusa Milling Company is a dry bean and seed milling operation. It also coordinates sales and marketing of dry beans for a large grower base. They contract for rice seed soaking April-May annually. Back to top

Licensed Wastewater Facility

SAKATA Seed America Inc. is a vegetable seed, breeding, cleaning and drying facility. They process open pollinated and hybrid squash, watermelon and cucumber seeds. Back to top

CIP’s licensed wastewater operation includes more than 650acres for process wastewater application. Back to top

W.M. Lyles Co., a diversified construction organization that performs work throughout most of California, and has operational capacity in several adjoining states, expanded its operation to include a Colusa plant.

The company is a tenant at Colusa Industrial Properties [C.I.P.].

The Colusa operation is the most recent addition to the company’s operations in Fresno, Visalia, Bakersfield and Temecula. Brandon Roth is the Colusa Project Manager.                          

The company does heavy civil construction and lays pipe underground. It recently branched out to include a mechanical division to fabricate pipe.

The more than 60-year-old company originated in the oil fields at Avenal, in the Kettleman Hills of Central California. It began in 1945 when it was founded by W.M. ‘Bill’ Lyles, Sr.

With the oil field beginnings, the company did farm trenching and all kinds of construction. Later it expanded to underground construction including water, sewer and steel pipelines as well as electrical and telephone conduit irrigation lines, prison infrastructure, Con/Span concrete culvert systems and environmental ecological services.

W.M. Lyles Co. has completed a number of multi-million dollar projects throughout California. Some of its clients and projects include school districts, hospitals, wastewater treatment plants, an ethanol plant, stored water recovery units and water filtration facilities.

W.M. Lyles’ parent company is Lyles Diversified, Inc. [LDI]. It is also affiliated with Pelco Security Camera, Lyles Construction Group, and American Paving.

Pelco Security Camera provides most of the cameras for the CIA. Lyles Construction Group, based in Fresno, California specializes in infrastructure construction throughout the state of California as well as Northern Nevada. Lyles Construction Group performs a wide range of infrastructure construction including: pipeline, treatment plants, pumping stations, groundwater storage, paving, grading, concrete flatwork, power, utilities, communication, irrigation, groundwater storage and canal work.

An aggressive effort to breathe new life into an existing building on the Colusa Industrial Park Property resulted in the establishment of a state-of-the-art food processing operation.

Since 1990 the cold storage building has been used for refrigerated storage of fruits and vegetables, but now is occupied by Premier Mushrooms L.P. Late in 2007, Premier expanded to include the cold storage and packaging facility on the Industrial Park. At this facility, Premier merged and integrated a packaging staff of about 35 employees.

The former cold storage building is now a 21,000 square foot facility, which although designed for strict adherence to food safety guidelines goes beyond the level of standards required. In fact, the operation standards, driven by the USDA and FDA as well as customer specifications take a proactive approach and follow standards higher than those required. The building also includes bio-terrorism security measures to further insure the quality standards and safety of the mushrooms being processed there.

Premier Mushrooms L.P is one of Colusa County’s fastest growing ag-related industries. The mushroom farm has seen tremendous success and growth in facility size, production numbers and as an employer since it first purchased the existing farm in 2006. To date, Premier Mushrooms is in full production of 32 growing rooms producing more than double of predicted production rates.

The mushroom farm employs more than 100 employees, and has expanded its wholesale client base to include many of the major food distributors in the state.

At the end of 2007, Premier Mushrooms CEO Mark Gannuscio commented that the expectations for the year had been met, and that the farm is doing better than planned. Moving into 2008, Gannuscio stated that the farm would implement an entirely new processing line with washed mushrooms for slice and a comprehensively engineered processing line for packaged mushrooms for bulk to final product.
“Our expectation is to streamline the process and automation to improve processing customer satisfaction while keeping down overtime,” he said.

Premier Mushrooms L.P. has worked hard to become a part of the community. They have stepped up to support the youth by contributing $50,000 to the construction of the snack building at the Colusa High School Football Stadium, they sponsored  Kids World and free hot dogs and soda for children attending the Colusa County Fair, and they sponsored a softball team.

While there may have been previous issues of odor at the site, the group of private investors who purchased the business has taken great care in upgrading the facility. The priority of that upgrade process has been an odor reduction air system said Gannuscio.

Gannuscio also explained that the facility’s wharf area is totally enclosed. The process includes two bio-filters to cleanse the air and mitigate odors. The odor mitigation/air treatment design assures that the wharf maintains a negative pressure, inducing airflow into the building and preventing escape of interior air and odors.

The pasteurizing and compost process is totally enclosed in the wharf building. Gannuscio added that all aspects of wetting straw to the final product would be contained. “The negative pressure forces the atmosphere to go through the scrubbers and bio-filters to remove odors from the air,” he said.
According to information provided by Premier Mushrooms L.P., the odor impact minimization plan has been developed to provide guidance to on-site personnel in the handling, storage, and removal of compost-like substrate materials in accordance with the California State Code of Regulations.
The farm initially began production growing ‘whites’ but has now expanded to include portabella and browns as well.

Gannuscio said that the future looks good for Premier Mushrooms and that it has the potential of becoming one of the largest private-sector employers in the county.