Life Science
Consumer Products
Kingsford, Plant Site Upgrades, Burnside and Summer Shade, KY
Middough has been providing engineering, construction assistance and management services on numerous projects for Kingsford, the leading manufacturer of charcoal in the United States.
Middough's projects for Kingsford's Burnside and Summer Shade, Kentucky plants have included packaging facilities and warehouse upgrades, material storage improvements, dryer replacement, retort upgrade, briquetting facility modernization, finished product material handling upgrade and a hog fuel facility.
Middough's scope of services for the plants consisted of modifications to existing building structures, upgrading amenity facilities to meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements, installation of new conveyor reconstruction of material handling facilities and site infrastructure improvements.
Middough's relationship with Kingsford has spanned more than eight years and continues to provide engineering and management services at these sites.
Procter & Gamble, Site Logistics Model, Lima, OH
Middough provided engineering services and development for Procter & Gamble to provide a ProModel traffic flow simulation. This model was used to optimize existing site traffic flow patterns, as well as the flow between the existing plant and a proposed new distribution center.
The scope included data acquisition to define existing guardhouse, drop lot, road and dock activities, as well as gathering data for the new distribution center in support of model development and simulation experiments. Using data from the simulation, existing site conditions and proposed warehouse designs were evaluated and modified during the preliminary design stage of the project. The simulation model was also used during the final design of the state-of-the-art material handling system for the distribution center.
The Cincinnati Professional Engineering Society (CPES) presented the project team with an Engineering Excellence Award for the work on this project.