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FEATURE: GEOGRAPHICALLY WELL POSITIONED

meeting the needs of the marketplace,"
said Randy Garvert, manager of the
Saginaw and Sherman mills.
While located in the heart of wheatgrowing territory, the Texas mills are
essentially destination mills, predominantly serving customers in Texas,
Arkansas, Louisiana and, to a lesser
degree, Oklahoma. A large proportion
of the flour milled at Saginaw goes to
customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, of which Saginaw is a part.
The fourth largest metropolitan area
in the United States, the area also encompasses Arlington, Plano and Denton, a 12-county area in all. Population
in 2008 was 6.3 million, up from 5.2
million in 2000.
"What has happened in this metroplex
over the last 25 years has been phenomenal," Garvert said. "Even over the past
couple of years it has been impressive.
Not that there hasn't been economic

pain during the downturn, but it has not
been as bad as elsewhere. It is a pretty
resilient marketplace."
HIGHLY FLEXIBLE
MILLING UNIT ADDITION
In a project completed just over a year
ago, ConAgra Mills added equipment
for a second milling unit at Saginaw.
Rather than mirroring the first unit that
has 6,000 cwts of daily milling capacity,
the B mill at Saginaw has 8,000 cwts of
capacity. Additionally, the new unit is a
swing mill able to produce like amounts
of either hard wheat flour or soft wheat
flour and also is capable of milling
whole wheat flour.
Roughly half of the production at the
mill is sacked, with the balance shipped
bulk.
Flour milled at Saginaw is used for a
wide range of end products, including
bread, tortillas, snacks, biscuits, rolls,

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buns, pizza dough, breading, batters,
cookies, crackers and institutional products such as gravies and spices.
"Saginaw is a very diverse facility
with the ability to mill so many different
kinds of wheat and blend them to meet
the needs of our customers," Brown
said. "We didn't have that flexibility at
Blackwell."
The Saginaw location, in the heart of
the Dallas-Fort Worth area, gives the
mill additional advantages, Garvert said.
"We can be very responsive to customer needs and deliver flour very
quickly in the metropolitan area," he
said. "Customers can call, and we can
have flour loaded in a trailer within an
hour. That means we can deliver flour in
1½ to 2½ hours, depending on the location in the metropolitan area, from the
time the customer calls."
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