Celebrating its 90th anniversary, Standard Meat Company cut the ribbon on its fifth protein processing plant at 1101 NE 23rd Street in Fort Worth, Texas. The 166,000-sq-ft plant occupies a renovated, historic 1955 meat processing facility in Fort Worth’s northside, a short distance from the Standard Meat Company headquarters at the iconic Fort Worth Stockyards.
The building was purchased for development in 2023 and is Standard Meat’s most technologically advanced to date. Designed with flexibility in mind, the new facility allows SMC to scale existing technologies like sous vide and searing. Expansion capacity at the new site will allow for additional sous vide lines, or other production lines as needed to explore future technologies and address emerging opportunities.
“At Standard Meat, we don’t demand that our clients choose from a fixed menu of products and services,” says Standard Meat Company CEO and Co-President Ben Rosenthal. “Instead, we look for out-of-the-box solutions for each client’s unique needs. With this new plant, we’ll have even more flexibility to introduce cutting-edge technologies and processes, doing everything we can do to drive business forward for our clients."
Longtime Standard Meat Company team member Adam Speirs has been named Plant Manager.
“We’re always thrilled to fill management positions from within the company, and with Adam Speirs, we couldn’t have asked for a better candidate,” says Standard Meat Company Co-President Ashli Rosenthal Blumenfeld. “He comes to this position with an 18-year track record of responsibility and excellence. As a member of the design and construction team for the new plant, he coordinates company strategy with our outside construction partner CSC Group and architecture and engineering partner Schemmer Group. As ongoing plant manager once the plant is open, we know we can rely on him to ensure the facility meets current client needs, adapts quickly to future strategies, and satisfies team member expectations as a terrific place to work.”
In addition to cutting the ribbon on the new facility, Standard Meat Company is celebrating it's 90th anniversary. Founded in 1935 (with roots going back even further to a family meat stall in Fort Worth’s historic public market) the company has evolved into a global supplier for the food service and retail industries.
“Ninety years in, the SMC family has weathered countless challenges and helped guide our customers through them,” says Blumenfeld. “We understand how to navigate uncertainty because we’ve done it before. When the world gets complicated, we get scrappy and creative. That’s the mindset we bring to our partners every day.”
