Hormel Foods, 2013 Sustainable Supply Chain of the Year
Refrigerated & Frozen Foods honors Hormel Foods for its green supply chain achievements.
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Hormel Foods
Hormel Foods produces close to 4.8 billion pounds of refrigerated and frozen beef, turkey and pork per year.
Environmentally-Friendly Fans and Skylights
Reflective roofing materials and environmentally-friendly fans and skylights help drive down electricity and gas consumption.
Vision Inspection System
A vision inspection system identifies trays with food on the seal surface and rejects them before reaching the sealer.
Packaging Reduction
In order to achieve packaging reduction goals, in 2011, Hormel Foods' packaging team initiated more than 58 total projects and completed 33 projects.
Hormel Foods Party Trays
Hormel party trays feature a snap-off lid, and come with a variety of packaged meats, cheeses and crackers.
Hormel Foods Bacon
A dedicated group of employees continuously focuses on design looks for packaging minimization opportunities.
LEED-Certified Refrigerated Foods Plant
Hormel Foods' Dubuque, Iowa, plant is one of the first manufacturing plants—and the only refrigerated food processing facility in the United States to be LEED certified at any level.
Hormel Foods Progressive Processing Plant
Operators pull product out of the retort in the Dubuque, Iowa, Progressive Processing plant.
Lloyd's Barbecue
Hormel Foods' packaging reduction efforts include a transformation of its Lloyd's barbeque line that is estimated to eliminate the printing of 25 million packaging sleeves.
Hormel Pepperoni Minis
In March 2009, Hormel Foods introduced Minis, which are bite-sized pepperoni slices to be eaten as a snack or used as an ingredient into a larger meal, such as pasta, salad or lasagna.
Hormel Foods Environmentally-Friendly Progressive Processing Plant
The 348,000-square-foot Progressive Processing facility was designed to be as efficient and environmentally-friendly as possible.