Food Plant Construction Survey: Safety, consumers drive expansion
Processors realize that existing facilities must be updated and expanded to meet food safety regulations and increasing and challenging customer demands
This year’s FE Plant Construction Survey produced what seem to be surprising results, but on second thought, may reveal a trend perhaps not all that surprising.
For the last four surveys, the ratio of expansion and renovation projects to new projects has steadily been increasing, showing almost a 2.5 to one ratio for the year 2016—for which we’re reporting. (See graph, “Renovations and expansions compared to new projects.”)