The engineering team from Northeast Foods’ Automatic Rolls of North Carolina hamburger bun manufacturing facility, winner of Food Engineering’s 2012 Plant of the Year award, participated in a special presentation at FE’s annual Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference. More than 200 food and beverage industry executives and suppliers attended the conference and Plant of the Year Award ceremony held in April in Fort Myers, FL.
High throughput characterizes all Northeast Foods plants, but this greenfield facility, located in Clayton, NC and a sole supplier to McDonald’s restaurants in the Southeast, utilizes an unconventional approach to traditional automation, quality and sustainability.