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Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee USA

Coffee Roasting & Distribution Facility


Austin Services
Site Location
Design
Engineering
Construction

Location
Fort Worth, TX

Facts & Data


100,000 SF

The winner of the 19th Annual “New Plant of the Year” competition, sponsored by Food
Winner of Food Engineering
Magazine’s 19th Annual “New Engineering Magazine, is a $25-million coffee roasting facility designed, engineered and
Plant of the Year” Competition constructed by The Austin Company. The highly-automated plant, located in Fort Worth,
Texas, is owned by Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee, Inc., Canada’s top private-brand
coffee supplier.

To meet anticipated production requirements as a result of a growing demand for its


products, Mother Parkers needed to build a new roasting and distribution facility in a
short amount of time.

Mother Parkers selected The Austin Company’s facility location group, Austin Consulting,
to conduct a study to determine the best location for the proposed facility. After
thoroughly analyzing more than 20 states — taking into consideration critical factors
such as transportation, utilities, labor and taxes — the
group pinpointed Fort Worth, Texas. Not only is Fort
Worth a transportation hub, but Texas ports are also
highly-efficient in importing green coffee beans. These
location attributes offer Mother Parkers the flexibility it
needs to expand its U.S. market as demand for its
products grows.

After identifying the location, Austin was then selected to


design, engineer and construct the roasting and
distribution plant under a design-build contract. The new
Fort Worth facility complements Mother Parkers’ existing
operations throughout the U.S.
Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee USA
Coffee Roasting & Distribution Facility
Austin Services The project consisted of designing and building a 100,000 SF facility for roasting,
Site Location
Design
packaging and distributing whole bean and ground coffee. The facility was operational
Engineering just nine months after initial construction began, despite several construction
Construction
challenges. Up to five different erection and construction crews worked together to keep
Location the aggressive schedule on track.
Fort Worth, TX
The plant was designed to produce more than 20-million pounds of coffee per year,
Facts & Data
100,000 SF with the flexibility to produce up to 80-million pounds in the future. Austin designed the
facility to allow Mother Parkers to install additional roasting and grinding equipment
without major structural changes and with minimal disruption to operations.

The building layout supports a highly-efficient production flow, beginning with bean
receiving at three recessed truck docks. The beans move to silo storage and a cleaning
room, through coffee roasting and grinding operations, to packaging systems in the
center of the building, and finally to the rack warehouse.

The product is ultimately shipped from four truck docks located in the warehouse. The
layout was designed to allow for easy expansion — certain walls are constructed of
metal siding and can be readily moved to provide for future expansion needs.

A unique color scheme highlights the importance of each area within the plant. The tiled
floor surrounding the roaster and grinders reinforces this concept. A state-of-the-art
control room is centrally located in the main building. It features wall-to-wall windows
for a view of major operations. The control room is complete with desktop computer
control stations. A multimedia wall allows a single operator to monitor and control all
plant operations, including raw material storage, coffee production and packaging.

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