Submissions are now open for the 2020 Food Engineering Plant of the Year.

Tuffy’s Pet Foods has broken ground on a 173,500 sq. ft. facility in Delano, Minn.

Cold storage construction company Tippmann Innovation has completed a new meat processing and cold storage facility for Wolverine Packing Co. The 180,000-sq.-ft. warehouse provides Wolverine with its fifth processing plant and a second freezer with capacity to store 20,000 pallets.

Maple Leaf Foods has announced it will build a $660 million fresh poultry facility in London, Ontario, Canada.

Gray Construction chairman Jim Gray has been recognized as a founding father of the Design-Build Institute of America.

Tyler Cundiff, vice president of business development in Gray Construction’s food and beverage market, received the Construction Management Founders Society’s Young Construction Engineer of the Year Award at a reception held by the University of Kentucky’s College of Engineering.

Ramen maker Maruchan Virginia, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd., has broken ground on a manufacturing expansion on its Chesterfield, Va. campus.