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Top 10 Articles of 2024 – No. 5: How Taylor Farms Rebuilt After Disaster

Join ProFood World in looking back at the site’s most popular articles of 2024. No. 5 tells an impactful story of how a salad and fresh food producer rebuilt its primary processing facility following a tragic fire.

Taylor Farms Salinas Rebuilt
Taylor Farms opened its rebuilt processing facility as a state-of-the-art plant with increased efficiencies in every part of the building.
Dennis Group

Taylor Farms had established a decades-old processing facility responsible for most of its leafy green production. However, the company was hit with a major challenge, and they responded with intention, as reported by Michael Costa. 

In April 2022, Taylor Farms’ flagship foodservice production facility in Salinas, Calif. suffered a devastating fire that destroyed 60,000-sq-ft of processing space. The company rebuilt from scratch under a one-year deadline and now has a state-of-the-art processing plant with a weekly production volume of 15 million lb of fresh produce.

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