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.

Hansen Rice Design Build Contracting Approach

Design-build Approach Is a 4-phase Analytical Methodology

Allows owners to evaluate risk and the funding commitments

Wooster Heavyduty 20 Anti Slip Coating

Anti-slip Epoxy System Provides High Traction and Durability

Is compatible with previously installed coatings

At Proliant Dairy Ingredients’ new facility in St. Johns, Mich., a pipe bridge conveys liquid milk permeate and whey permeate from the adjacent MWC plant for producing dry ingredients for feed and food applications. Photo by Thomas Kirby

Bridging the Gap for Whey Permeate

Proliant Dairy Ingredients receives whey permeate from MWC’s concentrate process via a pipe bridge, where it is dried on the world’s largest permeate dryer of its kind. The collaboration provides environmental savings and maximum return for both.

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Food Facility Design/Build Playbook

Identify professionals at food production companies that have plans to initiate facility design/build projects.

The plant includes 16 Tetra Pak vats capable of making 10,000 lb of cheese in every batch.

MWC Creates a Cheese and Whey Recipe for Success

Intellectual property, proven equipment and technology, operational readiness, a seasoned workforce, and the perfect partnerships provide a winning combination to launch MWC’s greenfield dairy facility.

Cheese and Whey Processing Plant Features State of the Art Technology

MWC’s huge greenfield facility will process 25% of Michigan’s milk supply. Joyce Fassl visited the new facility and reports back in this Take Five with ProFood World video on the advancements being made by MWC.

The nano factory is a fully-functioning, mini production line that fits entirely into a 40-foot shipping container.

Unilever Engineers Fit a Factory Into a 40-foot Container

The ‘nano factory’ enables flexibility and agility in production capability, particularly in terms of testing new products and responding quickly to changes in consumer demand.

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Resiliency of the Food Industry

Timelines skewed, international building plans delayed–yet as companies adapt, site search project work continues to move forward.

Hitting the Spot

Start early, do your homework, and determine what you can live with or without when searching for a new facility’s location. Leave no stone unturned in uncovering workforce assistance programs, tax and utility incentives, and potential operating costs.

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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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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.