Plant of the Year

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Now is the time to begin preparing your entry for FE’s top honor, the 30th Annual Plant of the Year award.

Some additional upfront cost already is paying dividends to this manufacturing organization, with the biggest returns yet to come.

Emerging from 40 years in the background, Keystone Foods is asserting its capabilities as a contract manufacturer at its brand new Gadsden, AL facility.

Celebration Foods faced capacity constraints, but its new plant had to be true to the handmade tradition of its ice cream cakes.

The Rochester area rolls out the welcome mat for its newest Italian citizen by way of the Midwest .

Long on cash and short on capacity, T. Marzetti Co. took the plunge two years ago and began construction of its first new plant in more than half a century. Now it intends to exploit its new asset.

If officials at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Inc. and Nestlé SA wanted a symbol of their frozen snacks’ merger, they couldn’t do better than the expanded Dreyer’s plant in Bakersfield, CA. Since 1983, Food Engineering has celebrated outstanding examples of food and beverage facility design and construction from sea to shining sea with the annual Food Plant of the Year award. Nestlé’s Carnation plant in Bakersfield was honored in 1989 (“World’s largest ice-cream plant,” Food Engineering, March 1989).

Best practices, not faddish trends, drive plant innovation at Pennsylvania poultry processor.