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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 May 1, 2006 |
Dreyer's takes home the trophy Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream's Bakersfield, CA, plant honored as Food Engineering's 2006 Plant of the Year. |
Food Engineering September 1, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Unilever North American Ice Cream to upgrade its Hagerstown, MD plant... Nestle selects site for $359 million factory and distribution center... Dakota Provisions opens new turkey processing plant... 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 November 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions North Dakota Natural Beef opens new processing facility... Golden States Foods breaks ground on Garner, NC, distribution facility... Cargill inaugurates rapeseed crush plant in western France... etc. |
Food Engineering February 26, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Tyson to open Discovery Center in Springdale... Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United building new production, sales distribution center... Mexico's Grupo Lala dairy opens plant in Baja California... |
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. |
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 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 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 June 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions IFP North America building aseptic multi-fruit plant in Erie, PA... Albuquerque Tortilla Co. breaks ground on plant addition... Archer Daniels Midland upgrading, expanding Bahia, Brazil cocoa processing facility... Tyson Foods to double office space at Springdale, AR... etc. |
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 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 June 4, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Bush Brothers & Co. to expand its Tennessee operation... Nestle Prepared Foods to invest in new production equipment at its Jonesboro, AR, manufacturing facility... Organic food processor Amy's Kitchen is building a new plant... |
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 Engineering April 1, 2009 |
Plant Openings & Expansion Nestle announces construction of its largest ready-to-drink aseptic beverage plant and distribution facility... Cargill is building a new manufacturing plant to produce animal feeds... 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 Engineering August 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions MBA Poultry to build new headquarters, final processing, packaging and distribution center... Heat and Control opens facility in China... Cargill expands capacity for natural chondroitin sulfate... Sanderson Farms plans $20-million poultry processing facility and hatchery... |
Food Engineering December 1, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Totally Chocolate begins operations in new manufacturing facility... Blue Ribbon Cheese Co. to build a $225 million manufacturing facility in California... etc. |
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 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... |
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 May 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Flowers Foods plans bakery in Bardstown, KY... Kraft Foods expands its Newberry, SC, operation .. Mars Petcare building a 250,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility... 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. |
Food Processing October 2006 |
Vibratory solution to a sticky problem To keep pace with the popularity of its Craisins sweetened dried cranberries, Ocean Spray is adding production capacity at a fast pace. |
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. |
Chemistry World April 12, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Veolia and Total open oil recycling plant Environmental services firm Veolia Environnement and oil company Total have opened a new plant near Le Havre, France, to regenerate used oils into engine lubricants. |
Food Engineering April 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Tyson Foods plans $100-million renovation of former Oscar Mayer plant... SunOpta Inc. consolidates five regional warehouses... Lumberg doubling manufacturing capacity... Chef John Folse & Co. opens food plant in Donaldsonville, LA... |
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 Engineering April 4, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins |
Plant of the Year Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream In the groove in Bakersfield Nestle SA didn't just buy an ice cream company when it acquired Dreyer's. It added a management team with a talent for creating a world-class manufacturing facility. |
Food Engineering April 3, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Construction begins on Snyders of Hanover's Goodyear, AZ pretzel bakery... Kettle Foods to build a 70,000-sq.-ft. plant in Beloit, WI... Perdue Farms to expand Houston County, GA, facility... Palermo Villa to build frozen pizza manufacturing plant in Milwaukee... |
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 Engineering February 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Molson plans Canadian brewery... Campbell Soup's Napoleon plant includes flexible production lines... Tropical Beverage has water testing plant in Santa Ana... Maple Leaf Bakery adds production line in Roanoke... Cereal Ingredients builds facility, headquarters in Leavenworth... |
Food Engineering February 8, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Hormel Foods planning $6-million expansion of Rochelle, Ill., plant... Loders Croklaan opens new oil processing factory... Pennant Foods doubles capacity of Northlake, Ill., puff-pastry plant... etc. |
Food Engineering June 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Tasty Baking Company has started construction of a 345,000-sq.-ft. building... Stellar has completed the United States Cold Storage facility... Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC. broke ground for its new million-ton-per-year sugar refinery... etc. |
Food Engineering November 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions John B. Sanfilippo and Son breaks ground for million-sq.-ft. facility... Pepperidge Farm, Inc. attaches 114,000-sq.-ft. warehouse to its Willard, OH, production plant... Georgia Institute of Technology opens Food Processing Technology Building in Atlanta, GA... |
Food Engineering September 3, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Creative Food Products Inc. opened a 27,000-sq.-ft. snack food processing facility... Crown Holdings announced that its Brazilian subsidiary, Crown Embalagens S.A., plans to build a $48 million beverage plant... etc. |
Food Engineering April 2, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Allied Blending & Ingredients is opening a new processing facility... Ruggiero Seafood is expanding its Newark, NJ, processing facility... Sara Lee Corp. finalized plans for The Kitchens of Sara Lee... |
Food Engineering December 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Traditional Baking completes expansion at Bloomington, CA, facility... Ruiz Foods to renovate vacant facility in Dennison, TX... Smithfield Foods planning $213.5 million expansion project on behalf of three subsidiaries... |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2006 John S. McClenahen |
Air Products Plans New Korean Plant Allentown, Pa.-based Air Products & Chemicals Inc. is constructing a new nitrogen trifluoride plant in Ulsan, South Korea, to support Asian semiconductor and liquid crystal display markets. |
Food Engineering January 1, 2009 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Keystone Foods LLC's new processing plant in Gadsden, AL... Sara Lee Corporation will build a new coffee-extraction plant in the Netherlands... Barrel O'Fun Snack Foods Co. purchased 12.5 acres in Phoenix, AZ and began construction of a 144,000 sq.-ft. manufacturing and distribution center... |
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. |
Food Engineering November 2, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions US Foodservice Inc. plans to invest $100 million in capital projects to expand its operations... Provesta Flavor Ingredients, a subsidiary of ABF Ingredients, began a series of expansions to its manufacturing facility... etc. |
Food Engineering January 1, 2007 David Phillips |
Westward Expansion The 10-year-old West Jordan plant is in the midst of its largest expansion ever. The project will add five new lines to the five currently in place, and will nearly double throughput as Dannon works to grow the yogurt market in the United States. |
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 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 August 2, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions United States Cold Storage building new facility... United Natural Foods Inc. to open new distribution center... PepsiCo International selects second snacks manufacturing site in Russia... Nestle open state-of-the-art powder milk plant in China... |
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 Processing September 2009 |
MRO Q&A: How Can Plant Managers Keep up with All the Changes Happening in Every Area of Food Plant Operations? Welcome to MRO Q&A, a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. We've assembled a panel of plant operations experts to answer any question you have on plant-floor issues. |
Food Processing April 2007 Dave Fusaro |
Editor's Plate: Paying homage to the small builders Excitement is also felt by people at small companies who are building their first plant or their first major expansion. |