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Article: Capital spending survey.
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- Dairy Foods
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Last year's greenfield plants are mostly complete; still, capital spending for 1998 should increase by 8.5%, our annual survey shows.
Cold storage is a hot item for companies responding to Dairy Foods' annual capital spending survey.
Nearly a third of the companies in the survey listed cooler and/or warehousing projects in 1997 or planned for 1998.
Projects range from basic coolers with in-floor conveyors or pallet racks served by fork trucks to state-of-the-art automated warehouses. In the latter category, Santee Dairy, City of Industry, Calif., and Darigold, Sunnyside, Wash., have installed two of the most sophisticated systems in the dairy industry. ...