Greenfield Vegetable Plant

Dennis Group has partnered with Taylor Farms on a number of major development projects. When a new greenfield plant was required to support Taylor Farms’ operations in Mexico, Dennis Group was selected to serve as the design-build firm to execute the work. The timeline was extremely short because the business needs dictated that the facility had to be operational in time for the next growing cycle.

This large-scale 275,000 SF facility, housing 18 production lines, went from approval to commissioning in only 12 months in a country where Dennis Group had no local presence. The timeline was impressive, but even more so when you consider that major infrastructure was required since the plant was located one mile from the roadway and 5 miles from a power source.

Dennis Group successfully designed and built an efficient cold processing facility in an area where the delta between external and internal temperatures can be upwards of 100 degrees F. The fast-track schedule required a large number of Dennis Group staff and contractors on site during the construction phase – upwards of 600 people daily. Despite the large bi-lingual workforce, the project finished with zero safety incidents.