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Processors balance labor shortages, production demand, and SKU complexity with more targeted automation and AI-driven decision-making.

Facility in Buford, Ga., becomes Ammega's first global site to exclusively produce water-based polyurethane belts.

Ensuring a building's structural requirements meet processors' needs must be discussed early in the project planning process.

Mike McCarthy shares insights on how production management software solutions can help processors navigate the constantly evolving variables of the meat industry.

Emphasis on machine reliability and increasing output remain key motivators for processors' new equipment purchases.

A 50,000-square-foot expansion boosts production capacity and efficiency while supporting continued growth.

Refrigerator/freezer distribution facility in Florence, S.C., includes 45 loading docks, a Cheney Express and the largest culinary kitchen the company has developed to date. 

Pork processor Triumph Foods invests nearly $30 million to expand its St. Joseph, Mo., facility, increasing cold storage and shipping space and setting the stage for increased production.

Missouri-based meat processor's new facility features expanded protein processing capabilities, a retail meat market and additional value-added production for sliced, marinated and ready-to-cook products.

Oklahoma-based Three Rivers Meat Co. expands its line of processed meats and value-added products, converting a portion of its butchering space for processed meats.