Fabulous Food Plants

An inside look at innovative processors who focus on lean manufacturing, sustainability and food safety

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Fabulous Food Plant: Cultures Converge at Commonwealth Dairy

December 5, 2012

A partnership between US entrepreneurs and German investors is helping retailers meet demand for Greek yogurt with store-brand options.


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

December 6, 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 1, 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 1, 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 1, 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 1, 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 1, 2008
Poultry supplier counts on biosecurity, automation and worker safety to produce quality meats.
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Fabulous Food Plant: December 2007

December 1, 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 2, 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 1, 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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Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference and Expo 2013

Images from Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference and Expo in Naples, Florida, April 14-17, 2013.

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The Food Defense Strategy Exchange (FDSE) is a forum for food defense professionals to interact and share their knowledge and experiences. At the most recent FDSE, a poll of attendees revealed that approximately two-thirds were either re-evaluating their existing food defense plan, or implementing new food defense plans. In this podcast, Don Hsieh, Director of Commercial and Industrial Marketing at Tyco Integrated Security, discusses this topic and other findings from the exchange, and offers some best practices to proactively protect a company’s brand from food adulteration.

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Food Engineering Magazine

FE 2013 June

2013 June

Check out Food Engineering’s June 2013 issue, featuring the results of the 36th Annual Plant Construction Survey

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Food Authentication Using Bioorganic Molecules

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