Cargill Invests $5.5M in Case Ready Meat Packaging Facility
Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc. invested $5.5 million in new equipment technology in its Hazleton, Pa., case ready meat packaging plant to increase efficiency and improve product quality and ergonomics for workers.
New equipment ranges from an automated product line dedicated to making specific products to an integrated network to centralize monitoring of equipment performance and production, including a new automated system for weighing boxes and labeling products, automated steak-trimming equipment and equipment to automatically construct shipping boxes.