Meat+Poultry - January 2020 - 32

EXECUTIVE SERIES

" Jamaicans
needed to be
a part of this
story. "
- MARK HASKINS

benefit is bolstering CB's reputation among
its customers. " Food safety is the driver of
automation, " Haskins says. " Our quality can't
be 'sort of' good. " He adds: " You have to earn
peoples' business, you know. We're asking
them to trust us. "
With shipping crates situated all around the
construction site holding the imported building

supplies and processing equipment, pockets
of workers focus on any of a number of areas
of the property, which was formerly farmland
used to grow sugar cane.
One of the many parts of the construction
process included building of 10 solid-sided
chicken houses, which served as the blueprint
for the company's contract producers. More
than 10 million birds have been
raised in the past four years to
ensure the systems are in place
to produce 100,000 birds per day.
Solar panels are installed on the
roofs of four chicken houses,
which supply power to all 10.
After growing to a target weight of
5 lbs., the birds will be slaughter
ready when they are approximately 38 days old.
In early December, the foundation of the new plant was in place,
in the shadow of the rendering
facility, which was enclosed and
being equipped with the drying
and cooking technology to process
poultry meal, blood, feathers and
fat byproducts for export customers in the pet food industry. The
rendering facility will receive the
nonedible byproducts directly
from the plant through two large,
pressurized supply pipes connecting the two buildings.

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Managing a construction project
the size and scope of CB Group's
would be a challenge in the US
or in any industrial country, but
the complications facing Haskins
and his team are compounded
exponentially given Jamaica's
isolated location and fragmented
infrastructure.
To help negotiate what are
sometimes daily scheduling hiccups as part of building one of the
poultry industry's most sophisticated plants, Haskins took an
unconventional approach by temporarily hiring Fergal Mac Mahon,
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