Shambaugh & Son L.P. Recognized With Prestigious Food Industry Award
---EMCOR Firm’s Project for T. Marzetti Company Named Food Engineering Magazine’s 2007 Food Plant of the Year---
FORT WAYNE, IN, April, 19, 2007 – The recently constructed T. Marzetti Company 220,000 square foot food processing plant in Horse Cave, Kentucky, designed and built by EMCOR Group’s Shambaugh & Son L.P., has received the coveted 2007 Food Plant of the Year Award by Food Engineering magazine. Shambaugh & Son is the only company to be recognized with four prestigious “Plant of the Year” awards from Food Engineering magazine---in 1990, 1992, 1998 and, now, in 2007.
One of the largest specialty contractors and facilities services organizations in the United States, Shambaugh & Son is wholly owned by EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), a Fortune 500® leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services for a diverse range of businesses globally.
“This unprecedented recognition is testament to our ability to conceive and execute highly complex and demanding projects for food manufacturers,” commented Mark Shambaugh, PE, DBIA, President and CEO, Shambaugh & Son. “Our proven design of solutions that seamlessly integrate into a company’s existing supply chain, allow our clients to maximize production efficiencies and enhance quality controls. With the Marzetti project - as with the majority of our other work – we use a single source design/build delivery model that saves time and eliminates unnecessary costs while providing innovative engineering and construction alternatives.”
“Shambaugh was selected based on its technical expertise in the food processing/manufacturing industry and its track record of completing work on time and on budget,” commented John Boylan, Treasurer of Lancaster Colony, T. Marzetti’s parent company. “The project was completed on budget, 25 days ahead of schedule, and the first product off the line was deemed salable!”
The $50 million T. Marzetti Company plant, completed in August 2006, is a new 220,000 square foot, state-of-the-art primary manufacturing facility. It features a number of innovative features designed by Shambaugh specifically for Marzetti that enable the company to enhance the efficiency of its production process for dressings and sauces for many of the country’s major restaurants, food retailers and food distributors. Selected by Marzetti after an exhaustive six-month interview process, Shambaugh & Son served as single source prime design-build contractor and self-performed all the mechanical, electrical, process, utilities, tele-data, and security work, plant automation, temperature controls, and fire protection. An extensive amount of pre-fabrication, a byproduct of 3D modeling, was used to accelerate schedule, ensure quality control, and reduce costs.
In naming the T. Marzetti project its 2007 Food Plant of the Year, Food Engineering magazine cited several key factors. Editor in Chief Joyce Fassl stated: “The decision to name the T. Marzetti plant as the winner included consideration of: the extensive use of off-site fabrication to reduce cost, speed of construction, better control quality of workmanship; superior sanitary design to improve allergen control and reduce time required for plant-wide sanitation procedures; modification of design based on operator as well as supervisor input; innovative pigging system that greatly reduces product waste and improves changeover times; and innovative use of the interstitial area between the walkable ceilings and roof top.”
About Shambaugh & Son
Founded in 1925, Shambaugh & Son is the third largest specialty contractor in the United States, specializing in the full range of new and retrofit construction for industrial, commercial, and institutional projects. The company’s services include the "self-performance" of eight broad disciplines -- mechanical, process, refrigeration, electrical, process controls, water and waste treatment, fire protection and temperature controls. Headquartered in Fort Wayne, IN, Shambaugh & Son has offices in Indianapolis, Lafayette, and South Bend, IN; Detroit and Kalamazoo, MI; Chicago, IL and Toledo, OH. The company is a subsidiary of EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE:EME), a Fortune 500® company with over $5.0 billion in annual sales and a global leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure, and end-to-end facilities services. EMCOR gives life to new structures and sustains life in existing ones by planning, installing, operating and maintaining sophisticated and mission critical systems in virtually every sector of the economy and for a diverse range of businesses around the world. EMCOR represents a rare combination of global reach and local execution, combining the strength of an industry leader with the knowledge and care of over 27,000 skilled employees at 70 local operating companies in 140 locations worldwide.
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