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Hill’s Pet Vitamin – Moist Pet Meals Manufacturing Facility
Tonganoxie, Kan.
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Submitted by: Grey

Proprietor: Hill’s Pet Vitamin

Lead Design Agency: Grey AE

Normal Contractor: Grey

Structural Engineer: Freeland Harris Consulting Engineers

MEP Engineer: Smith Seckman Reid Inc.

Constructed on an 80-acre greenfield website, this 365,000-sq-ft plant will increase Hill’s pet meals manufacturing capability with customized course of and high quality methods that incorporate new strategies for mixing powders and liquids and for dealing with meat.

Somewhat than copying an current plant, the proprietor envisioned this undertaking to be a hyper-modern manufacturing facility—a wise manufacturing facility that totally leveraged automated expertise, information assortment and sustainable constructing and course of methods.

Utilizing automated expertise and purpose-built tools, the undertaking group lowered the dimensions of the constructing by greater than 100,000 sq ft, leading to main price financial savings and an enchancment to operational effectivity. The lowered footprint makes extra environment friendly use of the manufacturing facility flooring and the extra open flooring plan gives ample house for robotic options to quickly load and transport supplies and items.

To attain LEED Gold and decrease the ability’s carbon footprint, the undertaking options sustainable design ideas that assist the ability preserve energy and water and enhance airflow effectivity. Greater than 1,000 motors run at peak effectivity with variable-frequency drives, and the ability reclaims water at 20 gallons per minute for reuse in nonpotable processes. Excessive-efficiency wall supplies and home windows decrease warmth switch as properly.

To allow probably the most environment friendly use of automated methods, the brand new plant is generally single story.