Dairy plant combines new capacity with Southern hospitality.(Mayfield Dairy Farms Inc.)

Food Engineering, July, 1999 by Mans, Jack; Morris, Charles E.

Mayfield Dairy Farms' new $18 million, 91,000 sq.-ft. plant on a 20-acre site at Braselton, GA - 40 miles northeast of Atlanta - adds fluid milk capacity needed to better supply Mayfield's fast-growing markets in Georgia and the Carolinas, and can be easily expanded to serve those areas well into the 21st century.

With capacity to process up to 700,000 gallon of milk per week, the facility supplements Mayfield's Athens, TN, plant - which had reached full capacity - and easily accesses company markets ranging south to Macon, GA, and north to Asheville, NC.

The new plant also caters to consumers by hosting public tours through a wide-windowed central hall overlooking operations. Tours start and conclude in a rustic, 4,700 sq.-ft. visitor's center which...

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