Items Tagged with 'expansion'

In addition to announcing expansion initiatives, Cal-Maine Foods has named Johnathan Zoeller as CFO for prepared foods and Dave Jordan as president of Echo Lake Foods.

The company has opened a 132,000-sq.-ft. facility in Provo, which joins its previous facility in American Fork, Utah.

EIC Alyse Thompson-Richards recaps some recent plant openings and expansions in the food and beverage industry, including Mars’ new Nature’s Bakery facility, CJ Schwan’s distribution center, Chomps’ Missouri manufacturing facility, Westrock Coffee’s single-serve coffee products plant and Puratos’ pilot bakery facility.

The 186,000-sq.-ft. facility will be transformed to produce fully cooked bacon and sausage products.

Year over year, Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches has doubled in size and has outgrown its current production facility. The new location will serve as a production facility and corporate headquarters.

The expansion includes enhancements to the bakery facility, which are aimed at improving product consistency, efficiency and baking excellence.

The newly acquired facility will optimize Quirch Foods’ logistics operations, enabling the company to meet growing customer demand with greater efficiency and flexibility.

Designed for efficiency, the line runs 1,500 12-oz. cans per minute, boosting the line's production capacity to more than 15 million cases per year.

The collaboration equips JBS Foods with the ManageEngine solutions that the company requires to unify its infrastructure management successfully, including more than 25,000 endpoints, 250 IT staff and 70,000 users in the U.S.

EIC Alyse Thompson-Richards recaps some recent plant openings, expansions and closures in the food and beverage industry, including Nelson-Jameson’s distribution center, Oatly’s closure of its Singapore plant, Richardson’s oat processing facility expansion, Vertical Cold Storage’s multimodal distribution center and cellular agriculture accelerator The Cultured Hub.