Dole Starts-Up New Salad Plant To Serve Eastern Markets
To better serve Eastern U.S. markets with its packaged fresh vegetable salads, Dole Value Added Products last year started-up a new $30 million, 156,750 sq.-ft. plant on a 40-acre site in Springfield, OH.
Unlike Dole's salad plants at Yuma, AZ, and Soledad, CA, (Food Engineering's 1995 New Plant Of The Year), which semi-annually rotate production equipment for proximity to seasonal raw materials, the Ohio facility operates year-round as well as around the clock. Three manufacturing shifts operate five days per week, with shipping continuing on weekends.