Logistics & Distribution

Dakota Provisions is a state-of-the-art turkey processing facility set up by Dakota Turkey Growers, a major farmers’ cooperative of 44 independent Hutterite (a religious group similar to the Amish who have adopted modern manufacturing as a way to survive) turkey farmers in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota, USA. It is the first full-line turkey facility to be built in the US since the late 1980s.

United States Cold Storage’s has opened its new food warehouse in Laredo. Stellar designed and built the 232,366-square-foot warehouse that will distribute a variety of produce goods, including strawberries and avocados.

The $35-million facility was constructed in only eight months

The new facility has insulated panels and an interstitial space located above each of the process areas for accommodating the mechanical and electrical systems. Stellar Group provided the engineering design and architectural services for the plant.

Nestlé awarded the contract for engineering, architectural and construction management to Stellar Group of Jacksonville, Florida. The plant and the storage facility have both been built to allow major expansion at a later date. Nestlé USA Prepared Foods division opened the first frozen food production line in March 2003; a second was opened in September 2003. The two production lines operate under a two-shift system.

Stellar is releasing a comprehensive new case study about its work with one of the nation’s leading coffee producers titled, “How Royal Cup Optimized Manufacturing & Enhanced Quality Systems to Support Growth.”

Stellar, a fully integrated firm focused on design, engineering, construction and mechanical services worldwide, has released a new e-book, “Food Facility Efficiency: Assessments 101.”

Stellar’s design-build project for premium poultry processor Bell & Evans in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, has been chosen as Food Engineering magazine’s December 2016 “Fab Food Plant.” Stellar construction and mechanical services worldwide, provided full design-build and process engineering services for the facility.