Santee Dairy Cold Storage and Distribution Center

Santee Dairy Cold Storage and Distribution Center

Santee produces the Knudsen line of dairy products and store brand dairy products for Hughes and Stater Brothers supermarkets. The plant provides dairy products to over 500 supermarkets throughout California.

CEI responsibilities for the project included Process, Refrigeration, Material Handling, Milk Receiving and Storage.

Santee Dairy Cold Storage and Distribution Center

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Case Chain Conveyors - both elevated and embedded

Key areas for this project:

Production analysis by SKU for optimum shelf life delivery to customers
Casing and packaging systems designed to maximize production units per employee
Receiving area with 4 parallel, drive-through lanes
State-of-the-art, automated product tracking system
Milk processing and by-product processing
High-rise ASRS racking system in cooler storage area
State-of-the-art automated product valve system to minimize product loss and changeover time

Product Distribution

When plant production began in October of 1997 in City of Industry, California, this fast-tracked, design-build project became one of the largest dairy plants in operation in the United States.