Headquartered in Thomasville, GA, Flowers Foods is a leading US marketer of packaged bakery foods. It operates 46 bakeries that produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries and tortillas. Most recently, the company’s bakery in Opelika, AL turned to LEDs to light the underside of its new bread cooling system.
The installation of LED lighting is becoming a popular choice for replacing high-intensity discharge fixtures, such as metal halide and/or compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). Metal halides can be costly to operate, generate intense heat and lose about half of their light output midway through their lifecycle. Requiring ongoing maintenance due to their limited lifecycles, CFLs contain mercury, which can pose multiple risks to food environments when a bulb is broken or cracked.