In November last year, the Friuli-based Roncadin group based in Meduno (Pordenone) opened its new plant in Chicago - Vernon Hills (Illinois): a 7,000-square-meter production hub with 100 employees where the first installed production line will be able to churn out up to 30 million frozen pizzas a year. "The new plant in Chicago is a very important step for growth," CEO Dario Roncadin told the paper Corriere della Sera, "the realization of a project on which we have been working hard for years and which will open up great new opportunities for the group and its people, as well as for the supply chain and the Made in Italy linked to the production of frozen pizza. Producing directly in the USA for us means being able to better serve a strategic market, where we entered in 2013 by importing the pizzas produced in Meduno. Throughout North America (the U.S. and Canada) our specialties were immediately highly appreciated, becoming recognized for their authentically Italian characteristics: 68% are destined for local distributor brands, while the Roncadin brand accounts for 32% of sales". It is clear that the decision to target the US will come in handy now that Donald Trump has announced tariffs on products from Europe.