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View search results on mapA canal system, including the unique, subaqueous Behrens Trench, brings brine from Clyman Bay, on the other side of the Great Salt Lake, as well as from the older and larger pond complex at Bear River Bay, to this potash plant which has been operating here since the late 1960s. Inside it is processed into sulfate of potash, a form of potash fertilizer that is used on high value crops, like fruits and nuts.
The phosphate ore mined here, north of Vernal, Utah, goes to the JR Simplot Rock Springs Wyoming Plant via a pressurized slurry pipeline 96 miles long. The mine was originally developed by the San Francisco Chemical Company in 1960. It was purchased by Chevron in 1981, which built the slurry pipeline and the Rock Springs plant around 1985.
Cane Creek is an underground potash mine, near Moab, Utah, opened in 1963 by the TexasGulf Company which was seeking to diversify from its increasingly obsolete sulfur operations in Texas and Louisiana. The mine accesses an ore body known as the Paradox Basin, 3,000 feet below the surface. In 1963, soon after the mine opened, 18 people died in an explosion in the mine.
JR Simplot operates this facility outside of Rock Springs, Wyoming, where the company makes monoammonium phosphate fertilizer, as well as phosphoric acid. The Rock Springs plant was built by Chevron in the mid-1980s, and was taken over by Simplot in 2003. The company recently built a $300 million ammonia plant at the site, which supplies the company’s largest phosphate facility, the Don Plant in Pocatello, with ammonia too.
This former underground gypsum mine in Grand Rapids, Michigan was converted into a produce storage warehouse in 1957. Its caverns are accessed by elevators operating inside two vertical shafts. Additional freezers and warehouses have been built on the surface. Around 750,000 square feet is said to be available for use still, underground. In 2001, the Underground Secure Data Center Operations company (USDCO) opened a data center in the mine, which has since changed hands.
General Motors' Headquarters is at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, which has 5,540,000 square feet of space, and a stop on the small downtown monorail. The center was originally conceived by Henry Ford II, and financed by Ford, along with other investors, in the 1970s, to help revitalize downtown Detroit. It was mostly designed by the architect John Portman. General Motors purchased the complex in 1996, and moved its headquarters there.
A privately operated museum about the Corvette, a General Motors sports car that has been built at the nearby GM Plant in Bowling Green since 1981. In 2014 a sinkhole opened up in the floor of the museum, and swallowed up eight Corvettes. They were recovered, and the museum was eventually reopened. A warren of caves and erosional karst formations underlies the Bowling Green region.
Ford’s headquarters building in Dearborn is close to the company’s famous River Rouge Plant, still one of the biggest industrial sites in the country today, as it was in the 1920s when it was cranking out the components of the Model T, the first car for the masses. The headquarters building is a large glass building with in a cluster of related corporate offices around it.
Land O'Lakes is a major dairy products company based in Minnesota, and has the nation's most recognized brand of butter. Its corporate headquarters is in the suburbs northeast of Minneapolis, next to a major research and manufacturing site for the medical device company Boston Scientific.
Supervalu is one of the largest retail grocery companies in the country, and this is one of its largest warehouse and distribution centers. It is located in suburban Minneapolis, near the company’s headquarters in Eden Prairie. Supervalu has more than 2,400 stores, including the Sav A Lot, Lucky, Shop n Save, and Shaws store brands. It serves these stores with products packed and distributed under house brands such as Shoppers Valu, Homelife, and Culinary Circle.
Marten Transportation is a major national trucking company with the nation's second largest fleet of refrigerated trailers, and a dozen terminals around the nation. It is headquartered here in Mondovi, Wisconsin.
American Foods Group is based in the old meatpacking town of Green Bay, Wisconsin, where it operates its largest plant. The company processes and delivers 6.5 million pounds of beef products every day. The fifth largest beef company in the USA, it is one of the principle suppliers to the American military and federal school lunch program. Green Bay still has several meatpacking plants operating in town.
Land O'Lakes is a major dairy company with a number of cheese plants in Wisconsin, including this one in Kiel. Though California has surpassed Wisconsin in milk production, Wisconsin still produces slightly more cheese. The Kiel, Wisconsin plant is one of two major industrial cheese makers in the town. The other is the Sargento plant.
Sargento Foods has one of its four Wisconsin cheese plants in Kiel. The company specializes in shredded and snack cheeses, and in custom cheese products for national restaurant chains and manufacturers. Land O' Lakes also operates a major industrial cheese plant in town. The state of Wisconsin follows only California in dairy-based production.
Oscar Mayer, the processed meat company, is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. The company is now owned by Kraft Foods. It was at this building where a number of innovations have occurred, including the invention of Lunchables.
On-Cor’s first plant, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, still makes frozen dinners and fully cooked meat products found in frozen food aisles all over the country. On-Cor is one of the nations largest frozen dinner brands. North of the plant is a former McCain frozen food plant, now owned by Jones Dairy, making breakfast sausage and other pork products.
This 55,000 square foot plant processes green beans and carrots in the summer, as well as prepared rice and pasta dishes such as Birds Eye's Steamfresh, Freshlike, and Voila products all year round. Wisconsin is one of the primary growing regions for green beans in the U.S., along with western New York and Oregon. Birds Eye’s Darien site is divided between frozen warehousing, cold repack operations, and fresh processing of vegetables and associated frozen food ingredients.
Kraft, the large foods company, is headquartered here in Northfield, Illinois, in the northern suburbs of Chicago. It merged with Heinz in 2015 to become the fourth largest food company in the world, and the new Kraft Heinz has a second headquarters with Heinz in Pittsburgh. Kraft was started by James Kraft, who figured out how to put cheese in a can, to increase its shelf life.
ConAgra’s Indianapolis facility is a major processed oils and margarine plant, producing much of the product for the company’s Blue Bonnet, Parkay, and Fleischmann’s brands.
There are hundreds of cold storage warehouses in the USA, supporting the refrigerated and frozen food industry. They tend to be in logistically strategic locations, and are often rather large. Atlas Cold Storage operates this one. Storage areas range from minus 20 in the ice-cream storage room to 55 degrees for flowers and fruits.
Kroger is the largest retail grocery company in the country. It has around 2,600 stores under its name and others, such as Food 4 Less, Fred Meyer, Ralphs, Dillons, and Smiths. Kroger does around $90 billion in sales annually, and is the second largest retailer in revenue (after Walmart). It operates 39 manufacturing plants, including 15 dairies, 10 bakeries, and 8 product plants, making things like peanut butter, cat food, sauces, nuts, spices, and jams.
ConAgra’s plant in Troy, Ohio, makes Max Frozen Pizza’s, and is the production center for Slim Jim meat sticks.
For many years this Dannon facility was likely the largest yogurt plant in the nation. Around 2012, a few bigger facilities elsewhere came on line, responding to rapidly increasing demand for yogurt. This remains one of the biggest yogurt plants in the nation though.
Nestle makes Stouffers and Lean Cuisine frozen dinners at its plant in Solon, Ohio. Solon is also the headquarters for the company’s Prepared Foods division. Nestle, based in Switzerland, is the world’s largest processed food company. The U.S. headquarters is in Glendale, California.
The Port of Wilmington is a major food port for the nation. It receives the largest volume of bananas, fresh fruit, and juice concentrate in North America. The Port has also become the largest East Coast export hub for cattle. With the combined operations of Dole and Chiquita (the two biggest banana companies in the world), the Port of Wilmington handles nearly one million tons of bananas a year, making it the second-largest banana port in the world after Antwerp.
Nicknamed the world’s largest fridge, this entire 686,000 square foot food distribution hub is kept at or below 50 degrees F throughout, from its 224 sealed dock doors to its quarter-mile long sales floor. When it opened in 2011, it had the largest central refrigeration system in the United States. Inside, individual wholesalers sell a variety of fresh produce to supermarkets, restaurants, and mom-and-pop stores within a 500-mile radius.
Kraft’s one-million-square-foot plant in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, employs more than 250 people. The plant holds the sole production line for Grey Poupon mustard and A-1 Steak Sauce, and also packages Kraft’s natural cheese products. Until 2007, the plant also produced process cheese, until the introduction of new, more efficient machines allowed Kraft to consolidate its process cheese operations to three mid-western plants.
U.S. Foods is the second largest food service industry company in the USA. Like its chief competitor, Sysco, which is twice as large, it supplies food to restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals, and government facilities. US Foods has around 60 locations in the USA, including this one in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which is similar to the others in form and function. It provides food preparation, storage, and logistics for the region.
Preferred Freezer Services is the fourth largest cold storage company in the USA. It has more than 30 facilities in the USA, including this large one in Elizabeth, New Jersey, one of two in the region serving the New York city area.