Plant Operations

Seneca Foods Corporation is a fully integrated producer, having made significant investments in facilities and technologies to enhance manufacturing processes, increase line speeds and guarantee premium quality. By remaining on the leading edge of agribusiness by implementing advanced technologies and information systems, Seneca Foods is able to produce an exceptional range of quality products more efficiently and with fewer imperfections.

We have a broad range of manufacturing capabilities. Our product portfolio includes various food concentrates and essences, fruit and vegetable snack chips, tomato-based and other sauces, natural coloring agents and an extensive assortment of processed fruit and vegetable products. We offer a multitude of packaging options: from bulk containers to bags, glass bottles to tin cans. Our processes include frozen, hot fill, continuous cooking, still retorting and vacuum frying.

We further believe it is our responsibility to protect the environment we live and work in. To minimize waste, we've initiated environmental programs which reuse fruit and vegetable end products as feed for livestock. Our water management systems recycle water from production and return it back into irrigation. We're constantly implementing new systems and procedures that not only keep us in compliance with ever-changing regulations, but also reflect our dedication to preserving a healthy environment.

Customers from all over North America can benefit from Seneca's strategically located facilities in the East, Midwest and Northwest. We offer our clients strict attention to detail ... and uncompromising quality control.

Can Manufacturing

When quality, speed and affordability are on the line, trust a supplier who knows how to do it right. Seneca Foods not only supplies top quality cans, but the added value of knowledge as well. We offer extensive support to our customers, including experienced seam service representatives who help ensure optimum processing quality and efficiencies are achieved after the sale. Our unique understanding of can manufacturing, as well as food processing, helps our customers in a way no other supplier can match.

Seneca offers steel cans in a variety of sizes, with diameters from 202 to 603 and heights from 304 to 700. Now with abilities to supply cans with E-Z Open (pull tab) ends, our high speed facilities in Baraboo, Wisconsin and Marion, New York are the most technologically advanced in the industry. This translates into superior quality at very competitive prices for our customers.

Transportation

SENECA EASTERN TRUCK FLEET OPERATIONS is a division of Seneca Foods that provides delivery of Seneca products to our customers in the Northeast, as well as, providing interplant transport service in New York State. The Fleet is managed and dispatched from offices located in our Geneva, N.Y. production–distribution facility. Fleet equipment is domiciled and maintained in Canandaigua, N.Y.

The Seneca Eastern Fleet has been engaged in the safe, dependable, efficient transportation of Seneca products since 1952. Our staff of professional drivers has a fleet average of 24 years of driving experience. They drive model year 2007 Freightliner Columbia tractors, equipped with Detroit DD 60-14L engines, as well as, Eaton - Fuller transmissions and Meritor drivetrains. Combining fuel efficiency with dependable service was the primary motive, for choosing this vehicle specification. Additional emissions reductions are attained by equipping tractors with auxiliary heating & cooling units. These units allow our drivers to utilize the sleeper berth, without idling the primary engine. Trailers are 53 foot long by 102 inch wide Utilitys. Both tractors and trailers are equipped with air–ride suspensions in order to help insure that the cargo arrives at the destination in good condition.

SENECA WESTERN TRUCK FLEET OPERATIONS is a division of Seneca Foods that provides delivery of Seneca products to our customers, primarily in the Western States, as well as, providing interplant transport service in the Northwest. The Fleet is managed and dispatched from offices located in our Payette Idaho production facility. Fleet equipment is domiciled and maintained at the Payette Plant.

The Seneca Western Fleet has been engaged in the safe, dependable, efficient transportation of food products since 1974. Our staff of professional drivers has a fleet average of 20 years of driving experience. They drive model year 2007 Freightliner Columbia tractors, equipped with Detroit DD 60-14L engines, as well as, Eaton Fuller transmissions and drivetrains. Combining fuel efficiency with dependable service was the primary motive, for choosing this vehicle specification. Additional emissions reductions are attained by equipping tractors with auxiliary heating & cooling units. These units allow our drivers to utilize the sleeper berth, without idling the primary engine. Trailers are 53 foot long by 102 inch wide Utilitys. Both tractors and trailers are equipped with air-ride suspensions in order to help insure that the cargo arrives at the destination in good condition.

Seneca over the road and local drivers continue to maintain their long–standing tradition of excellence, by combining their efforts to safely deliver over ten thousand loads, during the past year. On time deliveries to our customers, during the same period, was 99.8 percent.