It’s April, and that means it’s time to announce FE’s Plant of the Year. This year, we are proud to name Kraft Heinz as the recipient for its deli meat facility, built by Gray Construction, located in Davenport, Iowa.
The plant truly is a feat in process automation, where the new operations set out to cut down the number of steps in the cooking and production of deli meats, and dramatically did so. The operations also wanted to reduce the amount of time for protein extraction, which can take up to 24 hours, and achieved this as well—it takes less than a fourth of that time.