This was a significant facility conversion that created a high-capacity hard-boiled egg production plant.
The Meadow Creek facility was originally an egg breaking plant. The team executed a complete “gut job,” tearing out the old infrastructure and converting it into a specialized facility dedicated entirely to producing hard-cooked (hard-boiled) eggs.
The installation required approximately four miles of hand-welded, TIG-in-place stainless steel tubing, along with all associated control wiring.
The newly converted plant operates at an immense scale, boasting a production capacity of 80,000 hard-cooked eggs per hour.
These eggs are packaged into various formats for different market segments, including:
The primary purchasers of these products include Starbucks, gas stations, salad bars, and big-box stores.
Historically, “medium” sized eggs were largely discarded or considered low-value in the United States. Consumers prefer large or jumbo eggs for baking, and medium eggs offer a low yield for liquid egg breaking plants.
To solve this, Sanovo Technologies pioneered the idea of hard-boiling these medium eggs and selling them as ready-to-eat snacks. This innovation essentially invented the hard-boiled egg market in the US, turning a previously discarded byproduct into a highly profitable commodity—which is exactly the market Meadow Creek Foods now serves at a massive scale.
