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Expanded several times, Turano Baking Co.’s Berwyn, Ill., headquarters production plant features three fully-automated makeup lines and three semi-automated lines that can produce some 200 stock-keeping units overall and generate as many as 150 types of fresh products each day. Starting out as a 2,000-sq.-ft. storefront in the early 1960s, the facility now is a 185,000-sq.-ft. dynamo of action.
This year's two-day Tortilla Industry Association (TIA) tech seminar, to be held May 11-12 at the Disney Grand Californian in Anaheim, Calif., will focus on current issues and trends designed to help tortilla production plants become more successful and profitable.
A critical aspect on any production line, the package handling function
may require one conveyor section, multiple lanes or hundreds of
integrated material handling accumulators, elevators, lowerators,
robotics, controllers and more. We asked several manufacturers what’s
new in package handling equipment and systems to make your
manufacturing operation more productive.
Don Pancho East, Halifax, N.C., is brimming with a high-energy
staff and high-tech tortilla production on four new lines that can each
output as much as 60,000 tortillas per hour.
In today’s world, it’s tough enough just to find people to fill certain permanent roles, but very easy to fill them from outside of the fence line. Contributing columnist Jeff Dearduff suggests a call of duty.
A strong foundation, a rich family culture, an array of better-for-you products and a laundry list of achievements allow Shearer’s Foods to rise above the crowd and achieve ‘Shearer Perfection.’