Bilinski’s already has about 50 employees. Bilinski’s Sausage Co., and this new meatball endeavor, is a family effort.

Henri Lamont works in the sausage kitchen at the Bilinski Sausage Manufacturing Company on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, in Cohoes, N.Y. The company is expanding their product line to include meatballs ...

The Bilinski Sausage Manufacturing Co. will celebrate its 80th birthday this year in the same modest brick building where it started, at the end of a residential back street in this small city, on ...

Bilinski Sausage Mfg. Co. employee Sal Rivera arranges a rack of chicken sausages, before the smokehouse in the production area at Bilinski’s in Cohoes.

The chicken sausage brought Bilinski’s products to supermarkets across the nation, now Schonwetter is hoping the chicken meatball will grow the company’s shelf space and their bottom line.

Steve Schonwetter, 54, a native of Schenectady, is president of Bilinski Sausage Manufacturing in Cohoes. He bought the business in 1983 (and all of its original recipes) from the Bilinksi family, … ...

Bilinski's Sausage Co. has switched from eight to 12-hour shifts and moved to a six-day work week to keep up with demand.

Bilinski Sausage Manufacturing Company was founded in 1929 in Cohoes by Joseph Bilinski who started the company in his kitchen using only a hand cranked stuffer and a backyard smokehouse.