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Food Processing
December 2012
Dave Fusaro |
2012 Processor of the Year: Evolving From an Ancient Yogurt Factory Chobani as a manufacturer began with a winding-down Breyers plant and a Small Business loan.   |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2008
David Phillips |
Quality, Safety Intersect at Crossroad Farms Kroger's largest ice cream and milk facility reaches full stride with continuous improvement programs. |
Food Processing
April 2012
David Phillips |
Top 100 Capital Spending Report: Greek Yogurt Plants are Stacking Up After two years of 20 percent increases, capital spending looks to be up only 4.1 percent this year. |
Food Processing
December 2012
Dave Fusaro |
Chobani Selected As Food Processing 2012 Processor of the Year Turkish immigrant Hamdi Ulukaya wanted yogurt like that back home, so he made some -- like a billion dollars' worth of it. |
Food Processing
April 2007
Dave Fusaro |
Annual Capital Spending Outlook: Spend Now to Save Later Some of the biggest food companies are budgeting capital expenditures for multi-year programs meant to reduce costs in the long run. |
Food Engineering
March 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Idaho Milk Products begins plant construction in Jerome, ID... Lifeway Foods, Inc. completes headquarters expansion... Riviana Foods Inc. to build new rice processing, packaging plant... etc. |
Food Engineering
December 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions ADM company opens 500,000-sq.-ft. cocoa processing facility... H. J. Heinz partners in new Florence, SC., frozen-food manufacturing facility... etc. |
Food Engineering
August 3, 2006
Joyce Fassl |
Editor's Note: In search of the next winner Which outstanding new plant construction project, major expansion or highly renovated facility will be the next Plant of the Year? |
Food Engineering
March 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream's Laurel, MD plant expansion to add 300 jobs... Crowley Foods expands Bristol, VA cultured products plant... Southern Wine & Spirits of America builds 640,000 sq ft facility... New Fonterra Cooperative plant will incorporate milk protein fractionation technology... etc. |
Food Engineering
November 1, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Gold Kist completes Guntersville, AL, poultry plant expansion... Lindt USA begins construction on a 300,000-sq.-ft. production and storage capacity expansion... etc. |
Food Processing
April 2010
Dave Fusaro |
2010 Capital Spending Outlook: Pent-Up Demand Causes an Explosion in Projects After last year's drop in capital expenditures, budgets for the Food Processing Top 100 survey group are up 19 percent for 2010. |
Food Processing
May 2005
Mike Pehanich |
How to retrofit an aging plant Food processors looking to retrofit aging facilities to get more out of their capital budgets should heed these "rules of retro" before they bring their plants into the 21st century. |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Splenda facility in Singapore begins ramp-up... Davisco Foods to boost milk throughput at SD factory... ConAgra to move Reddi-Wip plant... Starbucks announces location of fifth roasting plant... |
Food Processing
August 2009
Bob Sperber |
New Lines for Lean Times Adding a new line? The production room can be the highest-value piece of the company to boost efficiency and stretch the dollar. |
Food Engineering
January 17, 2007 |
FE Tech Flash Vol. 3 No. 1 FDA Updates Calcium Labeling Rules... Del Monte Foods Kills the Sugar... Global Automation Infrastructure Needed... People, Plant and Industry News... etc. |
Food Engineering
March 6, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Leprino Foods begins construction on cheese plant expansion... Pineland Farms plans to build specialty cheese plant... etc. |
Food Engineering
August 3, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Pineland Farms completes specialty cheese plant... Reser's Fine Foods opened a new plant... AmeriCold is undergoing construction at several locations....Capriani Harrison Valve Corp. opens state-of-the-art, ISO 9001:2000 certified factory... |
Food Processing
October 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why Do Good Plants Go Down? From a macro perspective the top three major shutdown threats for a food plant could be summarized as: a catastrophic event, a facility's internal operational failure or a facility's external operational failure. |
Food Engineering
May 2, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Mexico's largest meat processor, Sigma Alimentos, S.A. DE C.V. (San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon), broke ground... Malt-O-Meal is opening a ready-to-eat cereal manufacturing facility in Asheboro, NC... etc. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Coors Brewing Co. is spending nearly $200 million to convert... Bud Antle Inc., a subsidiary of Dole, is investing $54 million to build and equip a vegetable processing plant... etc. |
Food Processing
May 2013
Kevin T. Higgins |
Dairy Processing Equipment Transitions from Tanks to Technology Stainless steel tanks and kettles are synonymous with dairy manufacturing, but the long-term trend is toward continuous processes that don't require the tools of batch. |
Food Engineering
September 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Kraft Pizza Company breaks ground on Little Chute, WI, plant... Stellar completes construction of meat processing plant in Seminole, OK... Ottens Flavors purchases Philadelphia plant... Hormel Foods is constructing a new production facility in Dubuque, IA... |
Prepared Foods
March 14, 2006
William A. Roberts, Jr. |
Dairy Picking If ever there was any doubt of yogurt's mainstream appeal, it certainly was laid to rest this year. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Smithfield Packing Co. opens $100-million plant in Kinston, NC... New Cargill and CHS partnership begins operating three milling facilities in Canada... American Dairy to expand to China by 2009... |
Food Processing
April 2005
Dave Fusaro |
Are capital spending fortunes improving? Several companies are placing big bets on the recovery by building 'world's largest' processing plants. The biggest project currently under way is a $192 million American cheddar cheese plant in Clovis, N.M., for SouthWest Cheese Co. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2008
Wayne Labs |
Fabulous Food Plant Synonymous with Quality Poultry supplier counts on biosecurity, automation and worker safety to produce quality meats. |
Food Engineering
December 1, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Rupari Food Services to build new production/cold storage facility... Pepperidge Farm to expand its Lakeland facility with a new bread line... Sargento Foods planning second major expansion... etc. |
Food Engineering
June 1, 2005
Fassl et al. |
28th Annual Plant Construction Survey: Extreme Makeovers Dominate Projects and budgets remain flat as food and beverage processors put their money into updating existing assets and improving food safety measures. |
Food Engineering
October 1, 2005
Kevin T. Higgins |
Fabulous Food Plants: Molecular Manipulation of Milk At the producer-owned dairy processor Select Milk, pasteurization and packaging are minor parts of the process. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Nestle Waters opening new plant and will create 250 new manufacturing jobs... Green Meadows Dairy plans to open state-of-the-art cheese and whey plant...Kellogg's Cheez-It factory to expand... etc. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Plant Blueprints Turn Green Building a new plant? Might as well design it for energy efficiency now, while you still have a choice. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
IEC Electronics Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 IEC Plant Rises From the Dead: Almost out for the count, circuit-board assembly operation reinvents itself. |
Food Processing
March 2005
Mike Pehanich |
Designing food safety into your plant Don't make food safety an afterthought. Carefully planning the design and materials used in your plant can help insure the safety of your food production. HACCP programs and AMI's 'Eleven Principles' are good starting points. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Southwest Cheese Co. nears completion of Clovis, NM cheese production facility... J. Rettenmaier USA to build $23-million dietary oat fiber plant in Cedar Rapids... MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems increases operating capacity of Roosendall, Netherlands facility... etc. |
Food Processing
June 2007
Mike Pehanich |
Today's renovation plan saves tomorrow's downtime Thorough planning, modern design tools and an instinct for the unexpected are key ingredients in the recipe for fast and efficient plant renovation and expansion. |
Food Engineering
October 3, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Coca-Cola building $60 million bottle recycle, reuse plant... Cargill to build another canola processing plant... Ocean Spray to expand its Craisins production network... etc. |
Food Engineering
April 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Hormel Foods begins construction on a new production facility... Tyson Foods plans $10 million expansion... Nestle Prepared Foods to expand its Jonesboro frozen foods facility... etc. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
September 2001 |
Yogurt: Diving for Cultured Pearls With protein, calcium, magnesium, riboflavin, vitamins B-6 and B-12, and more, plain low-fat or non-fat yogurt is as nutritious as skim milk. In fact, yogurt does milk one better, because its "active cultures" help digest the lactose in milk... |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009 |
General Cable Corp. - Altoona Plant: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 Competing With the World: With savvy market moves and a passion for continuous improvement, the General Cable Altoona plant is meeting the competition head on and winning. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Wayne Farms LLC opens further-processing facility... Barilla America building $96.2 million pasta manufacturing plant... Gold'n Plump Poultry invests $38 million to expand Arcadia, WI, facility... Wrigley Co. plans $48-million expansion of Flowery Branch, GA, plant... |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2006 |
29th Annual Plant Construction Survey Measuring Up to a Higher Standard Today's food processors are focusing on the fundamentals -- clean, safe, economical -- but with a twist. The stakes -- and responsibilities -- are much higher. |
Food Processing
April 2013
Kevin T. Higgins |
2013 Capital Spending Outlook: Processors Invest in the Tools of Production, Not Brick and Mortar Balance sheets look strong, but food companies are holding the line on capital projects, projecting only a 5.4 percent increase this year. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
American Axle & Manufacturing - Three Rivers Manufacturing Facility: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Driving Home the Benefits of Productivity: World-class manufacturing systems and employee involvement enable AAM's Three Rivers plant to win new business. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
Life Technologies: IW Best Plants Profile 2011 This plant transformation created a true manufacturing environment in a science-based culture and major revenue wins. |
Food Processing
July 2006
Mike Pehanich |
Extreme makeover: Plant edition Need to give your food plant a facelift? Start with materials and designs that spell safety, cleanliness and a "spankin' new look." |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Kettle Foods opened its 73,000-sq.-ft. Beloit, WI potato chip plant... Robertet Flavors broke ground on a 60,000-sq.-ft. expansion... etc. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Snap-on Power Tools: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Staying Power: How do you create an 'enduring manufacturing footprint' in a hard-hit North Carolina town? The lean way, of course. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
General Cable Corp. -- Lincoln, R.I.: IW Best Plants Profile 2011 After decades of batch-and-queue production, a veteran workforce has embraced the switch to cellular manufacturing. |
Food Processing
June 2006
Mike Pehanich |
Controlling moisture in the plant With once-ignored USDA requirements for condensation control compelling processors to take a closer look at humidity problems, here are some timely tips on choosing between desiccant and mechanical dehumidifiers. |
Prepared Foods
August 1, 2005
William A. Roberts, Jr. |
Light Up While recent years have not been kind to the yogurt category, there is hope in the introductions of light and health-conscious options -- new products that add an extra layer of healthfulness to products already regarded as healthful. |
