FE salutes the best of food plant engineering with a retrospective look at all 21 past
Plant of the Year award winners.
Although the 1980s are often referred to as the decade of excess and greed, a lot of good things happened. In 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, Lech Walesa received the Nobel Peace Prize and Food Engineering named the first winner of its Food Plant of the Year competition.
Over the past two decades, plants processing pudding, poultry, produce, pasta, dairy, beef, beer, and baked goods have been honored by this Food Engineering tradition of excellence.