Frozen Food
| Ardo Frozen Food Processing Plant, Kent | ||
| Aulds Frozen Foods, New Manufacturing Plant, Inchinnan, Scotland | ||
Aulds Apple Caramel Crunch is one of the new products made at the new facility in Scotland. |
Aulds makes a range of frozen desserts for supermarket chains including Tesco and Asda. |
After the fire in the original Aulds factory, a new temporary facility was constructed to continue producing desserts such as cheesecake. |
The new steel-framed facility is 35,000ft² and employs 170 workers. |
The new £7m Aulds factory opened in May 2007 after 18 months of planning and construction. |
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| Barilla Pasta Processing Plant | ||
Barilla opened a pasta processing plant and distribution facility in Avon, US, on 19 October 2007. |
The facility features a 110,000ft² pasta processing plant and a 205,000ft² distribution centre. |
The Avon pasta facility serves the north-eastern part of USA, which accounts for over half of Barilla's sales in the country. |
A 90ft tall semolina tower was constructed, which can hold a maximum of 1.76 million pounds of semolina. |
The flour that arrives at the facility is first sampled for quality through a laboratory analysis. |
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| Brake Brothers, Pasta Line Upgrade | ||
Brake Brothers' clean flow system reduces cleaning time and reduces the potential of damage to under 1%. |
Long type pastas such as fettuccine, linguine, tagliatelle and spaghetti are produced by Creative Foods, a subsidiary of Brake Brothers. |
Brake Brothers produces a range of pastas for incorporation into frozen ready meals. |
The clean flow system from Lyco Manufacturing uses a rotary drum to provide water injection to agitate the product and keep it in suspension during the process, preventing strands of pasta from sticking together. |
Creative Foods makes prepared frozen meals, sauces, soups and desserts for the UK catering market in various formats. |
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| Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Manufacturing Facility | ||
Dreyer's Grand is expanding its ice cream manufacturing facility at Bakersfield to increase production of items such as Nestlé Drumsticks. |
The expansion adds 400,000ft² (36,000m³) of space for a 120,000ft² -20°F freezer ice cream warehouse and six ice cream production lines. |
Dreyer's Grand ice cream pails come in a variety of flavours. |
Ice cream structure under electron microscope (showing fat globules and ice crystals). |
The creaminess and texture of the slow churned Dreyer's product has taken the low-fat ice cream market by storm. |
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| Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Manufacturing Facility, Laurel, Maryland | ||
The Dibs ice-cream snack line is produced at the LOC facility. |
A vast supply of milk will be required to keep the plant going. |
The Dreyer's slow churned brand now includes a half fat variety. |
| Himalaya Food Processing Plant | ||
The state government has allotted 22ha of land for the plant. |
The food processing plant will expand the company's ready-to-eat product line. |
The products will also be sold in metro cities and regions of west India. |
| Nestlé USA | ||
An artist's rendering of the Nestlé plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas. |
Nestlé Stouffer's food brand is produced at the new plant. |
Nestlé Lean Cuisine food brand is produced at the new plant. |
Rotary 'vegetable' filler frequently used with individually quick frozen foods. |
Piston filler used to dispense extremely precise fills into ready-meal packages. |
Film heat seal machine used to seal plastic film to the surface of ready-meal packages. |
An artist's impression of the Millard Refrigerated Services facility that joins the Nestlé building. |
US map showing the central location of Jonesboro, Arkansas, which is one reason why Nestlé chose the location. |
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| Sigma Food Meat Processing Plant, Seminole, Oklahoma | ||
Seminole is centrally located for the company’s distribution network. |
The plant will produce a range of processed meat products such as hot dog sausages. |
The plant will produce over 400,000lb of meat products per day. |
| Wells Dairy Ice Cream Production Facility, St George, Utah | ||
Wells Dairy production line. |
Simple hopper device for incorporating dry ingredients into recirculating liquids. |
The continuous ice cream (barrel) freezer. |
Spiral, wind tunnel freezer. |
Batch pasteurizer. |
Examples of Wells Dairy's ice cream brands. |
