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Bringing Home the (Fancy Italian) Bacon: How to Build a Next-Gen Food Plant
An Italian company wanted to put its first U.S. cured-meats factory in a Missouri college town. Stellar designed and built them a technologically advanced, highly automated facility that prioritizes employee wellbeing—and did most of the job during COVID.
By Grace Calengor
August 2, 2023
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by Grace Calengor
Grace Calengor is senior editor of Construction Executive. Prior to joining ABC in April 2023, she was managing editor of The Zebra Press in Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, in 2020 with two bachelor’s degrees in English and classics, and a minor in comparative literature.
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