Northeast Foods — Clayton, NC

A M King provided design build services for the new 103,000 SF greenfield facility that consisted of a 70,000 SF fully automated bakery and a 13,500 SF freezer at 56 foot high, a minus 10 degree Fahrenheit temperature and a fully automated racking system.  This facility houses the most automated bun baking and freezing process in the world, producing more buns per hour than any other bakery in existence.  The facility also contains administrative offices, employee welfare areas, dry and liquid ingredient rooms and an engine room which will house the state of the art ammonia refrigeration systems.  The building materials for the facility consisted of site cast tilt-up concrete wall panels, insulated metal panels and a structural steel framing system.  All refrigeration equipment is housed in a separate machine room and the evaporators are mounted in a rooftop penthouse.  Northeast Foods is a national contract baker for the commercial and fast food restaurant industry. This new facility is part of an overall supply chain strategy to better serve McDonald’s restaurants in the region. Northeast Foods is a privately held company that has served McDonald’s since 1965 and is the largest bakery supplier to McDonald’s in the United States. The project broke ground the summer of 2010 and began baking operations in the spring of 2011.

Awards
Food Plant of the Year - 2012 Food Engineering Magazine
"Eagle Award" - 2011 ABC Excellence in Construction
First Place - 2011 DBIA Southeast Region Design-Build Awards Competition

Project Team

Architect/Engineer: John Spear & Associates, Landisville, PA

Civil Engineer Team: Sanderson Engineering, Raleigh, NC

Interior Design: John Spear & Associates, Landisville, PA

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