Meeting the demands of a customer seems a simple concept in business — when a proposal is made, a company typically does what it can within reason to earn the new business and grow it.
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Tyson Foods, Inc. recently began work on a multi-million dollar improvement and expansion project at its poultry complex in Sedalia, Missouri.
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Properly designed facilities, easy-to-access equipment and motivated employees all contribute to plant sanitation.
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NPC Processing plans on big dividends from a new meat-processing facility.
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Good hygiene practices with conveyors can keep meat products pathogen-free.
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In the 1990s, a meat-plant employee entering a work station might have to use a decontaminating foot wash. Now, plant employees have to navigate a boot-scrubbing system, put on personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves, masks and goggles, and their movement is restricted to prevent any contamination.
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The meat and poultry industry is committed to ensuring a safe food product for our customers, maintaining the highest animal-welfare standards for our livestock, providing a safe and rewarding work environment to our employees, reaching out to the communities in which we do business, and working to minimize our environmental impact.
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Hormel’s brand new Progressive Processing plant in Dubuque, Iowa, opened earlier this year and recently became one of the first new-construction manufacturing facilities to earn gold-level LEED certification. Given that
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Protein plant of the future? You may be thinking, “I can’t worry about a future plant when I am focusing on my current plant’s operations.” But without forward thinking NOW, your protein plant of the future may be a boarded-up building surrounded by a weed-infested parking lot, or an over-built mega-structure burdened with fixed overhead costs and no workforce.

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A recent report by the New York Times pointed out the decline in the number of slaughterhouses in the country - there were 908 slaughterhouses in 2008, down from 1,211 in 1992 - and the affect it has had on the farming community.

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On demand Exclusively for thought-leaders in food and beverage processing facility management, Food Plant of the Future webinars are presented by Hixson, a leading design and engineering firm of food processing facilities in North America.

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