Upon visiting Plumrose’s Council Bluffs, IA operation, you won’t find fields of solar-cell arrays, bio-digesters, wind farms and the like. What you will find is an exceptionally well-constructed plant and fully automated processes run by a process control system that perfects product quality and saves energy. The entire process itself produces only a miniscule amount of waste and has little environmental impact on the community.
The LEED silver-certified facility was not only constructed with sustainability in mind, sustainability can be found everywhere you look—in the building and the automated processes. From the time raw turkey and ham come in the door to the time it goes out the door as cooked, sliced lunch meat, the product remains untouched by human hands. There is little waste—in product, electricity, water or natural gas—thanks to the exceptionally clean and efficient design of the plant and the plant-wide automation system.