Plant of the Year and Sustainable Plant of the Year winners announced

Food Engineering recognizes two outstanding plants

Food Engineering’s 2017 Plant of the Year goes to Abbott Nutrition. The facility, located in Tipp City, Ohio, produces a variety of popular nutritional supplements, including Ensure, PediaSure and Glucerna. The LEED Certified plant employs the highest level of process control and conformance with current Good Manufacturing Practices at every stage of manufacturing and distribution.

Food Engineering names Clif Bar Baking Co. of Twin Falls Sustainable Plant of the Year. This new award recognizes a newly constructed food facility that has went above and beyond to build a food plant focused on reducing, reusing and recycling. The Twin Falls, Idaho bakery uses 100 percent renewable energy and has reduced—compared to most bakeries—its refrigerant emissions by 40 percent, water usage by 37 percent and energy usage by 21 percent.

Food Engineering wants to thank all of the companies and firms that submitted their new plants for review. It was an extremely tough decision, and we are honored to have received all of the excellent nominations.

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Debra Schug was Editor-in-Chief of Food Engineering. She began her media career over a decade ago writing and producing broadcast news for both television and radio at the local and national level. She spent many years as the managing editor for two trade magazines in the oil industry and the research editor for an annual petroleum report. She has a master’s degree in journalism and mass communication from Iowa State University.