A WORLD-FIRST food production plant will open in Ipswich today, creating 120 jobs.

Queensland-based eggs producer Sunny Queen Australia has spent more than $40 million on the new headquarters and production facility at Carole Park.

It will turn out 1100 tonnes of prepared egg-based meals a year for health and aged care facilities, the defence force, mining company camps, airlines and workplace cafes.

The “meal solutions” are fully cooked or pasteurised, then snap-frozen for delivery nationwide and overseas.

“We have spent years working on our unique ­processes, unmatched by any of our competitors around the world,” Sunny Queen managing director John O’Hara said.

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