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Graeter’s ice cream plant is different by design

Graeter’s ice cream plant is different by design

Graeter’s ice cream plant blends a centuries-old process with modern technology to create an operation that’s like no other
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Kathie Canning
October 4, 2019
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First-time visitors to the ice cream manufacturing facility operated by Graeter's Ice Cream, attached to the company's Cincinnati headquarters on Regina Graeter Way, might be a little surprised when they step inside.
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Turkey Hill’s Conestoga, Pa., plant transitions to renewable energy

Turkey Hill’s Conestoga, Pa., plant transitions to renewable energy

Turkey Hill focuses on waste reduction as a way to both empower employees and become more sustainable
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Anna Boisseau
May 13, 2019
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2019 is a big year for Turkey Hill Dairy's Conestoga, Pa., plant: It's the year it became one of the first major ice cream or ice tea facilities to be run on 100% renewable energy.
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Toft Dairy's ice cream operations reflect a heritage of quality

Toft Dairy's ice cream operations reflect a heritage of quality

The ice cream Toft Dairy produces at its Sandusky, Ohio, plant is subject to the high standards the company has had in place for all of its products over the last 119 years
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Kathie Canning
February 8, 2019
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Large signs touting "Toft's 'One Quality'" and "Ohio's Oldest Dairy" greet visitors to Toft Dairy's 74,500-square-foot dairy plant/headquarters facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Those two messages amply describe the family-owned company's heritage.
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Cedar Crest Ice Cream is a house of many flavors

Cedar Crest Ice Cream is a house of many flavors

Cedar Crest’s Manitowoc, Wis., plant crafts ice cream in small batches — in dozens of creative flavors such as Jumping Jersey Cow and Coconut Explosion.
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Sarah M. Kennedy
February 5, 2018
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Cedar Crest Ice Cream makes an impressive amount of ice cream in its 45,408-square-foot facility in Manitowoc, Wis. The plant currently produces approximately 26 million pounds of product annually. The company uses the space wisely and continues to upgrade equipment and technology as product demand increases.


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Ben & Jerry's ice cream facility is committed to overall excellence

Ben & Jerry's ice cream facility is committed to overall excellence

Ben & Jerry’s St. Albans ice cream facility is committed to overall excellence — and preparing for significant expansion.
Debra Schug
October 9, 2017
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All of Ben & Jerry’s decisions are guided by its three-part mission statement: to make the best products, to be financially successful and to stand up for social causes. From start to finish, these principles also drive the operations and the floor workers at the company’s ice cream factory in St. Albans, Vt.


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JonnyPops is taking its ice cream novelty business to new heights

JonnyPops is taking its ice cream novelty business to new heights

JonnyPops co-founders Connor Wray and Erik Brust are taking their ice cream novelty business to new heights.
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James Carper
May 5, 2017
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Frozen novelties is a $4.9 billion annual business. Sales were up 4% but unit sales rose only 2.2% in the 52 weeks ended Feb. 19, 2017, according to IRI, a Chicago-based market research firm.


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Three Twins, the ice cream fixer-upper

Three Twins, the ice cream fixer-upper

Before he could make a pint of his Three Twins organic ice cream, owner Neal Gottlieb had to rehab the former Zurheide plant in Sheboygan, Wis.
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James Carper
February 3, 2017
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Neal Gottlieb, the founder of Three Twins Ice Cream, needed more capacity to keep up with demand for his organic ice cream. His facility in Petaluma, Calif., was maxed out. Adding shifts was not feasible. Gottlieb bid the work to co-packers but said their quotes were “sky-high” and the quality of the test runs was a “disaster.”


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Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream hones its craft

Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream hones its craft

The New York dairy processor focuses on quality of ingredients, transparency and crafting its artisan ice cream.
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Sarah M. Kennedy
October 6, 2016
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When it comes to artisan ice cream making, flavors, transparency and authenticity are what matter, according to Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream. The company makes dairy-based and vegan ice creams for its scoop shops, food trucks and retail customers. The company claims it makes the “absolute best vegan ice cream,” and it has a customer following and a taste that backs up that claim, (this editor can attest).


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Inside the dairy plant: By all Mayfield Dairy's accounts, reputation is quality

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James Carper
October 27, 2015
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Mayfield Dairy Farms manufactures milk for McDonald’s, ice cream for Baskin-Robbins and buttermilk for Cracker Barrel restaurants. The Tennessee-based dairy has expanded to Florida and Louisiana.


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Big flavors from small batches: A look inside Velvet Ice Cream's plant

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James Carper
October 6, 2014
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Over the last 100 years, Velvet Ice Cream, a self-styled ‘small batch’ producer, built a reputation for making premium products by using only the best flavorings, nuts, fruits, ribbons and inclusions.


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Graeter’s Ice Cream, Cincinnati, OH

Visitors to Graeter's would spy numerous somewhat peculiar-looking stainless-steel stations, distributed across four and a half rows, housing stainless-steel buckets. These station-and-bucket combinations are vat freezers, or modernized French Pots, and they are the main reason the plant employs so many people. Graeter's has relied on the labor-intensive French Pot process since the company's founding almost 150 years ago.

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