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CONSTRUCTION REPORT
City Slidell Nashville Hamilton Danville Northbrook Norwalk Clayton Cleveland Milwaukee Sunset Hills Norwalk East Brunswick Grand Forks Jackson Fort Smith North Ridgeville Green Bay Waycross Fort Erie Pleasant Prairie Ft. Wayne Logan Twp. Springfield Massillon Massillon Claysburg Claysburg Horse Cave Reno Hanover Roberson County Mount Juliet Boerne Brooklyn Lubbock Evendale State LA TN ON VA IL OH NC OH WI MO CT NJ ND TN AR OH WI GA ON WI IN NJ OH OH OH PA PA KY NV PA NC TN TX NY TX OH Category Type New Exp. New Exp. New Exp. New Exp. Exp. Exp Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. New New New New Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Exp. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Products Food Biscuits Food Pasta Pizza English muffins Bakery Bakery products Pizza Bakery Innovation center Bread Food Food Roasted nuts Popcorn Bakery Dough enrobed products Frozen cakes Bakery Potato chips Gluten-free products Baked Goods Toritlla chips Potato chips Frozen foods Cookies Frozen yeast rolls Food products Snack foods Desserts Desserts Nuts Asian-style food Ready-to-eat line Bakery products Investment (US$ mil) 8 2 2 19 8 25 1 22 4 30 16 20 1 10 9 13 4 5 15 2 27 5 1 33 7 10 4 2 2 4 20 28 18 Employees Size Added (1,000 sq ft) 100 21 100 12 7

Company Mr. Mudbug, Inc. Nashville Bun Co. Nem Foods Nestle USA Nestle USA New Horizon Baking Co. Northeast Foods Orlando Bakery Palermo Villa, Inc. Panera, LLC Pepperidge Farm Pepperidge Farm Philadelphia Macaroni Co. Pinnacle Foods Planters Company, Inc. Poppee’s Popcorn Port City Bakery (dba Alive and Kickin' Pizza Crust) Rich Products Rich Products Rolfs Patisserie Saratoga Potato Chips, LLC / Saratoga Capital, LLC Schar USA Schuler's Bakery Shearer's Foods Shearer's Foods Sheetz Bros. Shirley's Cookie Co. Sister Schubert's Homemade Rolls Inc SK Food Group Snyder's of Hanover Steven Roberts Original Dessert Tennessee Cheesecake Co. LLC Texas Star Nut and Food Co. Twin Marquis Foods United Supermarkets White Castle Systems, Inc.

Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. HQ

25 84 30 56 200

20 103 100 25 34 55 12 15 18 23 56

Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg.

175 51 11 150 50 16 64 52 12

Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. R&D Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg. Mfg.

50 48 65

79 342 60 29

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and energy performances to establish baselines on which to employ sustainable technologies and improve operational costs, Mr. Wernimont suggested. “At the heart of this will be an increased focus on energy audits, the identification and understanding of what is actually occurring,” he added. “With this knowledge in hand, a facility can take actions to achieve measurable sustainability. The actions taken will drive the implementation of PLCs, PCs, software and instrumentation to achieve the sustainable objectives.” SUSTAINABLE SAVINGS. LEED certification is not as important to

companies as actual sustainability programs that produce real returns on investment (ROIs), according to Mr. West. When A M King begins working with a client, it establishes the payback that the company is willing to accept on sustainability projects, and that, he pointed out, helps to determine which initiatives the construction firm recommends. Because processors want to reduce energy consumption, equipment suppliers have turned their attention to building more efficient systems to assist manufacturers in realizing energy cost savings. Mr. West said that energy-efficient sys-

tems have a larger initial price tag, but ROIs for sustainability initiatives can be relatively short. Many sustainability initiatives have a payback of less than five years, and some even feature ROIs of less than two years, according to Mr. West. Therefore, it only makes sense that more baking and snack manufacturers now give the go-ahead to install variable-frequency drives, energy-efficient motors and lighting, and more daytime lighting. To best take advantage of these energy-savings programs, Mr. West suggested working with a local utility from the onset of the project. For

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