An automated freezer storage and retrieval system is just one of several features at a new bakery in Clayton, N.C., operated by Northeast Foods.

A M King Construction, Charlotte, N.C., said it broke ground for a 103,000-square-foot fresh bun bakery and distribution center in Clayton, N.C., (see image, left) for Northeast Foods Inc.

Thermoform packaging and sealing equipment supplier Sencorp Inc., Hyannis, Mass., said it merged with White Systems,a Kenilworth, N.J.

In more than 10 years the Automated Storage and Retrieval System installed at Hershey Creamery Company, York, Pa., has not had a single down day.

 

Refrigerated & Frozen Foods went straight to the source to learn about the latest in automated storage and retrieval system technologies.

The vast majority of cold storage warehouses in the United States are large, cavernous buildings with ceilings that are approximately twenty feet high and multiple 12-foot-wide aisles with fork trucks riding in and out of them moving product up and down from the racks.