Scaled Production & Packaging
Located on adjacent sites in Holland, Michigan, our three world-class prepared entrée and skillet meal production facilities – totaling 903,000 sq. ft. – are equipped with a wide range of state-of-the-art processing equipment, engineered to assure optimum quality at each stage of production. We can provide high-speed, high-volume production, or more moderately sized capabilities for startup opportunities.
Request Foods can partner with you to incorporate specific production equipment for large scale projects.
Single-Serve Trays
- High-speed, high-volume with maximum automation through to packing
- Moderate speed for hand-placed accuracy or lower volume
- Various paperboard, plastic, or formed pulp tray sizes available, but custom sizes can be accommodated by designing new sealing plates.
- Printed paperboard cartons can be packed in RSC or shelf-ready cases.
Multi-Serve Trays
- Paperboard trays for typical fill of 20 to 50 ounces.
- Film sealed and quick frozen in spiral blast freezers.
- Printed cartons are automatically scanned to prevent mislabeling.
- Printed paperboard cartons can be packed in RSC or shelf-ready cases.
Party-Size Trays
- Foil half-steamtable pans can be packed in printed cartons for retail or overwrapped with slipsheet/adhesive label for foodservice.
- Multi-kettle kitchens and double-spiral blast freezers support high volume production
Vertical-Fill Skillet Bags
- Printed retail bagging with choices for gussets, folds
- Options for bag widths and lengths, filling weights from 12 to 48 ounces
- Liquid nitrogen tunnel freezing of sauce pucks
- Four lanes fill inline multihead weighers to support multiple components such as sauce pucks, proteins, vegetables, pasta.
Cooking Equipment
- Steam-injected kettles
- Continuous blanchers with cooling and dewatering
- Impingement belt oven
- Steam-jacketed horizontal blending cookers
- Rack cooking steam oven
Cooling Equipment
- Swept-surface heat exchangers
Pasta-Making Equipment
- Demaco noodle presses
- Dies for extruding various shapes: lasagna, macaroni, penne, fettucine, mafalda, spaghetti, etc.
Filling Equipment
- Piston fillers
- Handtmann vacuum fillers
- Dial fillers
- Triangle Inline weighers
- Multi-Fill MPF particulate fillers
- Patty forming
Mixing Equipment
- Programmable paddle blenders, ribbon blenders
Freezing Equipment
- Spiral freezers, double-spiral, product contact spiral
- Size ranging from 2,500-25,000 pounds/hr
Food Safety Equipment
- Metal detection, in-line barcode scanners, X-ray technology
Special Equipment
- Pouch filling (hot- or cold-fill): 8 oz. to 6 lb.
- Skillet bag forming
- Frozen sauce puck capability
John F. Donnelly Facility (RQH)
370,000 Production Square Feet
3460 John F. Donnelly Drive
Holland, MI 49424
Greenly Street Plant (GSP)
413,000 Production Square Feet
12875 Greenly Street
Holland, MI 49424
Quincy Street Plant (QSP)
120,000 Production Square Feet
13044 Quincy Street
Holland, MI 49424