Royal Cup Coffee and Tea’s CEO Bill Smith III and Senior Vice President of Operations Kevin Boughner received their Manufacturing Innovation Award trophy at ProFood Tech 2019. Photo by Kyle Bethea.
Finding a seat was no easy task at ProFood World’s third annual Manufacturing Innovation Awards held at ProFood Tech on March 27. In addition to Royal Cup Coffee and Tea’s award presentation, detailed here, two more companies were honored.
HP Hood’s Kevin Moyer, engineering project manager at Hood’s Batavia, New York, facility told the audience how his company invested $200 million to convert a brownfield plant formerly owned by Dairy Farmers of America into a facility for extended shelf-life beverages. The award-winning facility features advanced process control, upgraded packaging technology and some repurposed equipment from the previous owners.
