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Paper is a BIG
part of your
quality product.
Hundreds of stock items and custom
solutions to make your products
even better.
" Our family owned and
operated business serves
portioned meat, poultry,
fi sh, bacon, bakery, and
specialty provisioners
with the highest quality
paper goods and
astonishing service. "
PET FOOD PROCESSING
The plant
continues the
expansion of Hill's
Science Diet and
Prescription Diet
brands.
" Select the coatings
and single or multi-ply
paper stocks for
your specifi c
applications. "
GOOD TO GO GREENFIELD
The new Hill's Tonganoxie plant, which will produce more than 170 varieties
of wet pet food, will continue the expansion of Hill's Science Diet and
Prescription Diet brands. The facility features strategic automation and
technological advancements above and beyond what exists in the pet food
industry, according to the company. The facility's " smart " technology includes:
* Artificial Intelligence to power a digital food safety vigilance system
* Automation and robotic devices
* Enhanced food safety systems
* End-to-end digital process/safety monitoring
" Side notch, tear pin or
combo confi gurations
produced and tested to
perform accurately with
any equipment line. "
Products include: Patty Paper, Roll Paper, Bacon
Layout Paper and specialty products.
" This greenfield plant will not only help us to increase our capacity to meet
our demand, it will also allow us to unlock the power of cutting-edge science
to improve the lives of pets in the development and manufacture of new
nutritional solutions and product formats that best serve the evolving needs of
the pets and the people who care for them, " Hazlin continued.
Also in attendance at the opening ceremony was Buddy, the robotic dog
- just one of the plant's many automated technologies on display. Boston
Scientific's robot will play a vital role in the smart plant's operation - fetching
product and formula samples for quality lab testing.
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Benefits of the new smart technology and processes throughout the plant
include helping improve speed to market by shortening the production cycle.
The plant will also provide the tools to innovate new formats and products to
support Hill's mission to support the health and wellbeing of pets.
" Hill's will utilize technology to work alongside staff and a new stateof-the-art
Mission Control Center to provide unprecedented visibility and
monitoring through every aspect of pet food making, from ingredient intake to
final packaging, " Sharp said. " The production process is an entirely 'enclosed
system' from ingredient mixing to cooking and container filling - designed to
prevent food exposure to environmental contaminants. "
The plant was awarded LEED Gold certification - the first site within
Colgate-Palmolive operations to achieve that standard. Among many
sustainability focused features at the plant is a water reclamation system that
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