Fabulous Food Plants

Fabulous Food Plant: Hormel's Progressive Processing plant is built for the long haul

December 06, 2011
Hormel’s Progressive Processing plant is built for the long haul. A quarter century had passed since Hormel Foods had commissioned a new production facility. In designing its Dubuque plant, engineers aimed to create a facility that would be contemporary for the next 25 years.
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Fabulous Food Plant: Breakfast, Courtesy of Malt-O-Meal

December 01, 2010
Malt-O-Meal doubled the number of built-this-century US cereal plants when it started production last year in Asheboro, NC, site of its second new facility in six years.
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Fabulous Food Plant: FAGE Yogurt

December 01, 2009
This brand-new, nearly lights-out plant employs state-of-the-art process control technology to produce and package a high-quality, consistent product.
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Fabulous Food Plant: West Liberty Foods Westward, ho

December 01, 2008
Logistics demanded a fourth plant west of the Rockies, but West Liberty Foods seized the opportunity to upgrade its production flow and material-handling safeguards.
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Fabulous Food Plant: October 2008

October 01, 2008
Market conditions pushed Fresherized Foods to get back to basics this year, but the innovator in high pressure processing expects to emerge even stronger in global guacamole production.
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Fabulous Food Plant: Synonymous with Quality

January 01, 2008
Poultry supplier counts on biosecurity, automation and worker safety to produce quality meats.
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Fabulous Food Plant: December 2007

December 01, 2007
Key design criteria for Fieldale Farms’ RTE facility were bio-security and food safety.
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Fabulous Food Plant--Gatorade: Sustainability with Attitude

October 02, 2007
Corporate environmentalism has a squishy, public relations feel. When sustainable practices shaped a Gatorade plant, there was actual meat on the bones.
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Fabulous Food Plants: The Vermont Three-Step

December 01, 2006
Neighboring New Hampshire may be the Granite State, but the same rugged terrain marks Vermont, home to Cabot Creamery Cooperative.

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Fabulous Food Plants: Noodle Culture Club

September 03, 2006
Manufacturing is as much about people as machinery, and when both groups represent different cultures and languages, harmonious production can be a challenge. In the short history of Nong Shim Foods Inc., multi-cultural machines and humans are beginning to mesh.
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Frito-Lay Casa Grande was chosen as Food Engineering's 2011Sustainable Plant of the Year.Part learning lab, part sustainability showcase, the Frito-Lay facility in Casa Grande is the focus of the snack food manufacturer’s ambitious goal of creating a blueprint for sustained production in a resource-strapped tomorrow.

05/25/11 2:00 PM EDT

Seven Surprising Uses for Spray Technology

On-Demand: Processors clean, coat, cool, dry, and lubricate products and equipment in dozens of areas in a plant thousands of times a year. Even though it may not be obvious, spray technology is often the backbone of these operations and can be used in many more.

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