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Fabulous Food Plant: Cultures Converge at Commonwealth Dairy

December 5, 2012
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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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
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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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
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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
By Wayne Labs, Senior Technical Editor
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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
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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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
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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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
By Wayne Labs, Senior Technical Editor
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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
By Wayne Labs, Senior Technical Editor
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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
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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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
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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Neighboring New Hampshire may be the Granite State, but the same rugged terrain marks Vermont, home to Cabot Creamery Cooperative.

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