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GREATER OMAHA PACKING

like organic or natural products, and many of those demands present new packaging [and labeling] challenges. Greater Omaha is one of the last butcher-packers in the US.” Today’s customers want more, smaller, single-muscle cuts, Davis

says. “We’re the perfect company to satisfy such demands,” he adds. “We sell to 50 countries and each has unique demands and product needs. Being a mid-size packer, it’s a perfect match for us.” Over the decades, Greater Omaha

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Packing Co.’s former harvesting and fab plants underwent many additions to keep up with demand. But by the mid-1990s, it became apparent to Davis and Fili that USDA demands were changing while slaughter, fabrication and food-safety technologies continued evolving. They also determined they couldn’t utilize the latest technologies and continue processing the same number of cattle at their existing facilities. “It was impossible because everything needed more space,” Davis says. An intervention such as a hot-water cabinet requires 30-40 feet of space – and to fi nd that space in a plant built in the 70s was not possible, Fili says. When plans for the USDA’s new meat and poultry equipment certification program were announced, which resulted in the agency discontinuing its

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“We designed in extra room for future food-safety equipment and systems.”
22-year-old mandatory prior approval of equipment and utensils in 1997 in an effort to remove confl icting regulations when HACCP was introduced industrywide, GOP sprang into action. “At that point, we knew there were going to be major changes so we started buying this property and laid out the fab plant and continued designing the cattle-processing floor,” Davis says.

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GOP’s new harvesting and fab floors were designed with major input from Davis, Fili and department foremen. “We’re not engineers,” Davis says, “but we’ve worked on plant floors for many years. We collectively accumulated a tremendous amount of practical knowledge.” Those years of experience show in the plant’s operation and design. Stainless-steel catwalks suspend from the ceilings over the brightly lit har-

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