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Hill's Pet Nutrition Project Awarded by ProFood World
Hill’s Pet Nutrition and Gray were recently awarded ProFood World‘s 2024 Manufacturing Innovation Award for the design-build of Hill’s Pet Nutrition’s wet pet food manufacturing facility in Tonganoxie, KS.
The project award – and its recent cover feature article in ProFood World magazine – come as recognition of the collaboration between Gray and Hill’s to create a hypermodern, highly automated facility that would set a new standard in wet pet food processing.
Gray leveraged its full capabilities for the 366,000 s.f. greenfield production plant, including AD Process Equipment’s design and fabrication services for more than 25 custom stainless steel platforms to house the plant’s process equipment. Many of the platforms house equipment on multiple tiers, including the plant’s Clean-in-Place (CIP) system platforms, which feature a double-deck design. Other key factors include safety gates constructed from stainless steel tubing and expanded sheet for shielding.
ProFood World‘s criteria for the Manufacturing Innovation Award include a high level of technology advancement in processing and packaging machinery, automation, software, and controls, as well as major efficiency and cost savings, flexible manufacturing, outstanding use of methods such as Lean, and more.
Read more about AD Process Equipment’s scope for Hill’s Pet Nutrition.
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Award-Winning Projects
Gray has been honored with the Manufacturing Innovation Award for the second year in a row: in 2023, Gray received the award as ProFood World recognized Prestage Farms for its innovative air-chill turkey processing facility in Camden, SC.
This year’s award marks the fourth time since 2018 that a Gray project has been recognized with the award. Other winners included Kraft Heinz Cheese Formulation in 2021 and Clemens Food Group in 2018.
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