Industry-leading construction project management that delivers

Meeting food processors’ unique construction needs requires integrating countless factors during front-end planning straight through to final construction. O’Neal’s deep experience can protect your capital investments by delivering first-pass quality through project completion.

May 4th, 2017

O'Neal, Inc.

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Freshpet to Expand Texas Facility

Pet food processor plans to complete first round of expansions by 2022.

David Watson, Austin Company Baking And Snack Engineering Sme

The Austin Company hires David W. Watson

Watson to serve as baking and snack engineering SME

The Hampton Roads section of southeastern Virginia possesses a strategic location for operating a food or beverage manufacturing facility.

Mid-Atlantic location provides many amenities for manufacturing operations

In addition to quality labor and competitive operating costs which are mandatory for the food and beverage industry, the Port of Virginia is an advantageous location for industry sectors that depend on raw material supply.

Companies manufacturing cannabis-infused food and beverages are in need of appropriate packing to prevent confusion with children, seniors and pets.

Mixed reaction to cannabis opportunities

Some building and design companies forge ahead while others remain cautious.

Company’s expansion project increased capacity by 40 percent, adding six 1,100-barrel fermentation tanks. After fermentation, a pressurized CO2 system pushes product out of the tanks and sends it to the correct areas for packaging. Photo courtesy of CRB.

Big-picture planning, high-level collaboration

Sanitation, automation, operational visibility and existing infrastructure are just a few of the factors that must be addressed when conducting a successful plant expansion project.

OpX Leadership Network’s new Request for Proposals (RFP) Guidelines for the CPG Industry

New OpX guidelines ensure collaborative RFPs

PMMI's OpX Leadership Network Tools provide greater understanding of project requirements.

Montana Eggs which recently opened a new $9 million facility in Great Falls, MT.

Survey says Great Falls, MT is the most affordable location for food plants

National cost comparison survey finds food processors can find efficiencies due to proximity to raw materials, low costs and transportation access.

Joyce Fassl, From the editor

It’s all about the risk mitigation

Leaving nothing to chance, food and beverage manufacturers must employ many tools to ensure their people, plants, products and bottom lines are protected.

Joseph Adkins, senior project manager for H-E-B

H-E-B’s new snacks plant journey

By leveraging TCO tools for this project, organizational adoption was accelerated and is being reapplied to future projects.

Fred Hayes, PMMI director of technical services

Making safety everyone's responsibility

Productivity and safety can be at odds unless plant leadership embraces the fact that safety programs are just as important as other production programs.

Executive Chef Brandon Hamilton oversees recipe development for the RTE side of the facility. Photo by Aerial Imaging Resources

Manufacturing Innovator of the Year: Caito Foods leads the fresh revolution

The new Fresh Kitchen facility is designed to fit into Caito’s existing campus to take advantage of the company’s fresh produce facility for maximum product quality and freshness.

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Industry-leading construction project management that delivers

Meeting food processors’ unique construction needs requires integrating countless factors during front-end planning straight through to final construction. O’Neal’s deep experience can protect your capital investments by delivering first-pass quality through project completion.

Ergonomic systems like automated material handling and production processes protect workers at the new Sanderson Farms facility inn St. Pauls, NC.

Sanderson Farms expands market reach with greenfield processing facility in North Carolina

The plant will eventually process 1.25 million birds every week, enabling the company to expand its deboning market target by 12 percent and serve a broader customer base.

Sabra’s Chesterfield, Va., manufacturing facility produces more than 30,000 cases of hummus a day for retail and foodservice customers.

Sabra Dipping’s Virginia facility gets LEED-Gold

This is Sabra’s second LEED certification for the Chesterfield, VA facility.