- CFS.
CFS is building a new factory for peeling, slicing, loading/automation, and traysealing equipment in Kempten, Germany. Additionally, CFS will make major investments in upgrading the existing factory for packaging in Kempten. The new factory, which is expected to be completed by September, will be nearly 100,000 square feet in size ......
- Sanitary plant solutions: Zero-Loc partnered with North Star Foods to prepare its new plant for high standards of sanitation.
Keeping a meat-processing plant clean and free of contaminants starts with the basics--the structure in which the process takes place. If walls or ceilings are not properly built and sealed, harborages and leaks can crop up, making food safety and sanitation much more difficult for processors. Zero-Loc, based in Langley, ......
- Building on success: new plant construction, facility
expansions/renovations are being fueled by growing demand for further
value-added meat and poultry products, as well as more sanitary
facilities.
Even though the meat and poultry industries continue consolidating, insiders say that new plant construction and plant expansion/renovation projects continue percolating! This activity is due, in large part, to increasing demand for further value-added meat and poultry products. This increasing demand, in turn, results in the need for new plants, ......
- Living lean: with a new line and a new plant manager,
Advance Brands' Orange City, Iowa, plant decided the time was right
to implement lean manufacturing and other positive
changes.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Change before you have to." --Jack Welch Smaller players in a crowded field know they must initiate--and embrace--changes if they want to win. And employees at Advance Brands' Orange City, Iowa, plant certainly are accustomed to change. In fact, they've seen the facility through two major expansion ......
- Six-Shot Economics: how many shots do you have atshareholder value creation?
Perhaps it's because I've been living in Arizona for many years, but the analogy between business leaders and Old-West quick-draw artists appeals to me. Of course, gunslinging has a bad connotation in business, where planning and strategy are nouns more prized. But the analogy doesn't lie simply in the speed ......
- South-central Indiana update: the region's top
business stories.
EXPANSIONS DOMINATE the news in south-central Indiana, where the five-county area--Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Lawrence and Monroe--are seeing steady reinvestments. Industries expand. The biggest news comes from Mitchell, where Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Cement Co., owned by Germany's HeidelbergCement, is planning to spend $400 million to expand and upgrade its cement manufacturing ......
- No vroom for pollution: automakers work on greening up
their plants.
Honk if you've heard this data before: The Environmental Protection Agency says that on average, an individual gas-operated car releases about 12,500 pounds of air pollution each year--11,450 pounds of which is carbon dioxide. Cars also use about 581 gallons of gasoline per year on average. Light trucks release ......