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Starbucks brews up advanced technologies

Modern times call for modern processes, and Starbucks has invested in 21st-century facilities and equipment to produce a modern, soluble coffee that puts the old instants to shame.

Wayne Labs

December 17, 2015

When you think “instant coffee,” you may have memories that you’d like to forget.

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Fabulous food plant: Chelten House heads west to meet market demand

Locating a new facility in Las Vegas had excellent odds, including cutting transportation costs and finding a committed workforce.

Wayne Labs

December 4, 2014

Chelten House Products is a fourth-generation, family-owned business that has provided great-tasting, high-end pasta sauce and salsa products for food retailers for more than 40 years.

Alvey 910 palletizers get the Halos clementines ready to go to shipping

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Automation keeps fruit fresh at Paramount Citrus

This 640,000-sq.-ft. citrus fruit processing/packaging facility is almost completely automated and has a roof of solar cells and a fuel cell system to supply energy to the plant and the grid.

Wayne Labs

December 5, 2013

The plant provides consumers fresh fruit consistent in size, color, quality and taste while scoring environmental points.

Fabulous Food Plant: Cultures Converge at Commonwealth Dairy

Kevin T. Higgins

December 5, 2012

A partnership between US entrepreneurs and German investors is helping retailers meet demand for Greek yogurt with store-brand options.

Fabulous Food Plant: Hormel's Progressive Processing plant is built for the long haul

Kevin T. Higgins

December 6, 2011

Hormel’s Progressive Processing plant is built for the long haul. A quarter century had passed since Hormel Foods had commissioned a new production facility. In designing its Dubuque plant, engineers aimed to create a facility that would be contemporary for the next 25 years.

Fabulous Food Plant: Breakfast, Courtesy of Malt-O-Meal

Kevin T. Higgins

December 1, 2010

Malt-O-Meal doubled the number of built-this-century US cereal plants when it started production last year in Asheboro, NC, site of its second new facility in six years.

Wayne Labs

December 1, 2009

This brand-new, nearly lights-out plant employs state-of-the-art process control technology to produce and package a high-quality, consistent product.

Fabulous Food Plant: West Liberty Foods Westward, ho

Kevin T. Higgins

December 1, 2008

Logistics demanded a fourth plant west of the Rockies, but West Liberty Foods seized the opportunity to upgrade its production flow and material-handling safeguards.

Fabulous Food Plant: October 2008

Kevin T. Higgins

October 1, 2008

Market conditions pushed Fresherized Foods to get back to basics this year, but the innovator in high pressure processing expects to emerge even stronger in global guacamole production.

Wayne Labs

January 1, 2008

Poultry supplier counts on biosecurity, automation and worker safety to produce quality meats.

Listeria Outbreak Connected with Pre-Made Chicken Alfredo Meals Results in 3 Deaths

General Mills Sells North American Yogurt Business

Clean Label Packaging Expands to Include Sustainability Considerations

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