McCain Foods

McCain Foods plans to invest $300 million to expand its Othello, Wash., potato processing facility, adding 170,000 sq. ft.

McCain Foods Limited announced plans to expand capacity at its French fry manufacturing facility in Coaldale, Alberta, Canada. The expansion is expected to be completed by autumn 2017.

Key Technology has been selected to equip a new production line at Lutosa, a subsidiary of McCain Foods, with optical inspection and material handling equipment including VERYX digital sorters in a contract worth US$9 million. The new line in Leuze-en-Hainaut, Belgium, is scheduled to start up in 2018.

Lutosa, a subsidiary of McCain Foods, is adding a new frozen French fry production line at its facility in Leuze-en-Hainaut, Belgium, with optical inspection and material handling equipment supplied by Key Technology.

Key Technology has been selected to supply optical inspection and material handling equipment, including VERYX digital sorters, for a new frozen french fry production line at Lutosa in Leuze-en-Hainaut, Belgium. The contract is worth US$9 million.

Potato processing company Lutosa, a McCain Foods subsidiary, installed 20 Burgmetaal lifting systems at its Leuze-en-Hainaut and Saint-Eloois-Vijve production locations to facilitate handling and exchange of bag forming shoulders for VFFS packaging machines. The systems were installed over the past year.

NewCold signed a 10-year contract with McCain Foods Australia to use its new automated cold storage facility in Truganina, starting in July 2017. The facility, built by Dematic, will use automated pallet handling systems and is capable of handling more than 11,000 pallet movements per day.

McCain Foods plans to add over 400 million pounds of frozen French fry capacity in North America, evaluating sites in the US and Canada, and has invested CAD 65 million in its Florenceville, New Brunswick facility.