Koch Foods invests $145.5 million into facility expansion.

Addition helps to increase daily efficiency and productivity, double output capacity and help decrease labor hours.

New space increases manufacturing capabilities for Lyco's food processing machinery to over 100,000 square feet of operational area.

The expansion will increase capacity to meet growing demand for Hillshire Farms brand products.

Seven state-of-the-art production lines and 270,000 square feet will be added to the existing Caseyville facility to increase automated warehousing and robotics.

When James Jendruczek and Alan Bressler, owners of Trim-Rite Inc., envisioned the growth of their company, never did they believe they’d need to get into the slaughter business.

Voters for The National Provisioner’s Plant of the Year award this year faced a serious challenge, as each of the nominees — all processing facilities visited for cover stories from June 2015 through May 2016 — made a very strong case for winning the annual award.

In mid-November, Andy Hanacek, editor-in-chief, visited Raeford, N.C., in order to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony and get an exclusive tour of the new Butterball further-processing plant there (which was also still under construction at presstime).

For the fourth year, The National Provisioner has had a bevy of top-notch options for voters in its annual Plant of the Year competition — all the processing facilities that our editorial staff visited for cover stories from June 2014 through May 2015 were nominated.