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plenty of automation. The $47 million plant became fully
operational at the end of 2023.
Historically, at the company's original freeze dry facility,
meat was pre-blended, formed and flash frozen by
third-party facilities before coming to Muenster for freeze
drying and packaging. In Denton, the company's entire
freeze-drying operation is now done under one roof.
Vertical integration, from ingredient procurement, meat
processing and freeze drying all the way to packaging, is
providing the company with the necessary tools to become
a major player in the freeze-dried pet food market.
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Alongside Kainos Capital's investment into Muenster's
growing freeze-dried pet food business came an expansion
of the company's leadership team, starting with
the addition of Holdrieth as president and CEO in late
2023. As a veteran food ingredient executive, most recently
serving as CEO of Florida Food Products (FFP),
Holdrieth brought to Muenster more than 30 years of
manufacturing experience.
" I'm the first person without the last name of
Felderhoff to run this company, so I wanted to make
sure Chad and Mitch were comfortable with the direction
I had for Muenster Milling, " Holdrieth said.
With a new facility up and running and a goal of
becoming a market leader in freeze-dried, Holdrieth
quickly realized he needed a leadership team capable of
getting the job done.
" We were extremely lean from a human capital perspective
when I arrived. In looking at where we were
versus what we were trying to accomplish, we simply
didn't have the muscle to execute against the complexity
that is inherent in freeze-dried pet food, " he said. " We
had a state-of-the-art facility which had to be paired
with best-in-class people and processes to enable us to
deliver the highest quality pet food in the freeze dry industry.
So, I started building a management team that
could deliver just that. I firmly believe that if you get the
people right, you'll get the business right - and we've
done that with our executive leadership team. "
After taking charge of the development of the new
While many
freeze-dried pet
food facilities use
manual labor to
load trays into
freeze drying carts,
Muenster has
incorporated laborsaving
automation
to this part of the
process.
Muenster Milling
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