Processors seeking to expand their facilities and technologies most efficiently must team with partners that have the necessary expertise and experience.
For many dairy processors, the need to spend millions of dollars to expand their facilities to support increasingly greater activity and/or launch new product lines is a good situation in which to be. Yet making the necessary plant renovations can be arduous. A project that results in the most effective operations requires processors to hire adept partners — including architects, engineers, and contractors — while dealing with such obstacles as workforce and supply shortages.
Initiatives, however, are moving forward. In 2021, for instance, Cacique LLC, a Monrovia, Calif.-based producer of Mexican-style cheese, cremas, and chorizo, broke ground on an $88 million dairy processing facility in Amarillo, Texas. Cacique reports that the new 200,000-square-foot facility will feature technologies that allow the company to increase its overall capacity and meet the growing demand for its products.