With 175 years under its belt, dairy giant HP Hood LLC knows a thing or two about making dairy products. It operates 13 plants across New England to create its numerous product lines.
And its 153,000-square-foot Suffield, Conn., facility has the distinction of being where the company crafts its plethora of ice cream offerings. The plant produces 20 types of ice cream mix, “from sherbet, to yogurt, to low-fat ice cream, to regular ice cream, to premium ice cream,” at this location alone, notes Peter Fabbri, plant manager. All told, the plant manufactures approximately 350 SKUs — amounting to 40,000,000 units of ice cream and 40,000,000 ice cream sandwiches a year.