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How To Keep Your Food Plant Construction Project On Track

Technology and ever-increasing consumer demand are driving food and beverage companies to compete at a different level than ever before. Speed to mark…

How an Innovative Starbucks Processing Plant Takes Food Safety to New Levels

In response to the growing demand for home-brewed instant coffee that delivers true “coffee shop” flavor, Starbucks came to Stellar wanting to build a…

10 Process Innovations Inside Starbucks' Soluble Coffee Plant

When Starbucks engaged Stellar to design and build a soluble coffee manufacturing facility, it set the goal of creating the most functionally and tech…

Maple Leaf Foods Meat Processing Facility, Hamilton

The new facility has insulated panels and an interstitial space located above each of the process areas for accommodating the mechanical and electrica…

Starbucks Coffee Roasting Plant

The facility opened properly in early 2009 (following test runs and commissioning of equipment late in 2008). The 117,000ft² plant required an investm…

5 Ways To Reduce Water Use In Your Food Processing Plant

Food and beverage manufacturing facilities are notorious for how much water they consume. While water is central to your plant’s operations, there may…

2018 Plant Construction Survey: Rising Rate of Food & Beverage Plant Renovations/Expansions

Many food & beverage processors are renovating/expanding their existing plants to meet FSMA and consumer demands.

Nestlé USA Frozen Foods Production

Nestlé awarded the contract for engineering, architectural and construction management to Stellar Group of Jacksonville, Florida. The plant and the st…

3 Smart Ways To Invest In Your Food Or Beverage Facility For The Future

There’s never been a better time to invest in capital expenditures for your business. Recent tax reform has freed up cash and created more incentives …

5 Ways To Maintain Food Safety In An Older Facility

You don’t need to build a brand new facility to meet modern-day food safety standards. The reality is that most companies don’t have the budget to bui…

Managing Your Risk

A well-developed sanitary plant design takes a proactive approach to keeping pathogens and contamination at bay.

How To Design Efficient Product Flow Into A New Food Plant

The ultimate key to success is designing a plant that is linear so that product moves seamlessly downstream through each of the below steps without in…

Back To The Basics: How To Optimize Your Clean-In-Place System

A number of food and beverage facilities have been utilizing clean-in-place (CIP) systems for years. It's the method of cleaning processing equipment …

Improving Product Flow In Your Food Manufacturing Facility

Improper product flow can be detrimental to your food plant’s operations in more ways than one. These inefficiencies can cost money, waste time, jeopa…

Bell & Evans’ Chicken Processing Facility, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, US

US-based chicken producer Bell & Evans has made an investment of more than $260m to develop a new poultry processing facility in Lebanon County, P…

Preventing Allergen Control Failures and Labeling Mistakes

There were a total of 440 recalls of FDA and USDA regulated food products in 2017. The single leading cause of recalls last year? The presence of unde…

If You’re Renovating Or Expanding A Facility, You Need 3D Laser Scanning

Are you looking to expand your facility? Retrofit an existing structure? Renovate an older plant? Today’s technology makes these projects more efficie…

How A Facility Assessment Helped Royal Cup Coffee Build, Expand And Renovate Efficiently

In our industry, the best project outcomes require a great deal of planning. When it comes to greenfield and renovation projects, that means formulati…

The Facility Safety Double Standard: Is The Outside Of Your Building As Safe As The Inside?

There’s a prevalent double standard when it comes to food facility safety management. Think about the measures taken when a visitor enters a food plan…

Insulation Plays Critical Role at Food-Processing Facility

Construction of the new state-of-the-art plant involved evaluating all aspects of materials to deliver a facility that would operate at optimum effici…

7 Best Practices For Gluten-Free Manufacturing

The demand for gluten-free products isn’t just a passing trend. In fact, the gluten-free foods market is projected to be valued at $7.59 billion by 20…

Q&A: Building a Baking Facility in China

Speaking with Baking & Snack magazine, Enrico L. Chua, an engineering manager at Stellar with more than 16 years of experience in designing food p…

How to Upgrade Your Plant to Meet Food Safety Standards

Just like an older home, an aging food plant can have its share of problems. If your roof leaks, or there’s a hole in the wall in which cold air and c…

Millennials And Mergers: How Food Manufacturers Should Respond To The Changing Food Industry

Mergers and acquisitions are a driving force in the food industry today. Plus, a growing middle class and the millennial population are less brand loy…