By Kevin T. Higgins, senior editor. Appeared in Food Engineering, April 2011. When sellers of financial derivatives and the Bernie Madoffs of the world dangle deals to double and triple capital virtually overnight, it’s a wonder anyone invests in manufacturing. Spending on the production of goods is, with depressing regularity, viewed as a necessary evil to be minimized to the fullest...
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Beginning in fall 2011, students at Pittsburg State University in Kansas will be able to earn a bachelor of integrated studies with an emphasis in sustainability, society and resource management, the university announced. The degree will place graduates in a position to help solve some of the nation’s most difficult and important problems. Dr....
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Shearer’s Foods has been honored with the 2010 Innovation in Business Award. Because he has demonstrated a history of innovative ideas throughout his career, Bob Shearer, co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Shearer’s Foods, was further recognized as one of five VISIONARIES. In the article, “Green Manufacturing,” which appears in the October 2010 issue...
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Tortilla News, a blog focusing on tortilla chips, recently featured Shearer’s and its Millennium Manufacturing Facility. The blog highlights the facility’s honor as the first platinum-certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) food manufacturing plant in the world. The facility is situated on 34 acres, exceeds U.S. Green Building Council LEED energy design...
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Lamb Weston‘s processing facility received its official Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum certification, awarded by the U. S. Green Building Council. Lamb Weston is owned by ConAgra Foods. The Louisiana facility is the first frozen food manufacturing plant worldwide to earn LEED Platinum certification, the highest distinction available to green buildings. The...
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Why is sustainability so important? We have the knowledge and the capacity to leave the planet a better place than when we came. It’s just a matter of having the vision and the people that can make that vision real. And not only are we seeing leadership in terms of this Millennium Plant, but also in economic terms. The bottom line of green is...
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On October 15, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu toured Shearer’s Millennium facility, where he saw firsthand how the Company’s commitment to sustainability not only leads the way for how American businesses can impact the environment, but also how they can significantly impact the economy. “The message is that the United States has to move...
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Standing inside Shearer’s Foods new Millennium Manufacturing Plant, Bob Shearer admits he wasn’t thinking about sustainability when he was considering how to take the snack food company to the next phase of its growth. “It actually started about five or six years ago,” Shearer says, “when I heard a speech by General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt on green initiatives...
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At Shearer’s, our goal is to create snack foods of Shearer perfection, and our more than 1,400 associates help us achieve this goal every day. With 70 production lines across six facilities, our Company is focusing not only on the success of today, but is also taking steps to ensure our success well into the future by going green, making acquisitions, and developing our future leaders....
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