Welcome to Golden Flake's on line tour of our potato chip
processing and packaging operation. This tour is designed for visitors with
a high speed connection. You should have either a DSL
or Cable modem connection, as these files are large. If you do not have
a high speed connection you can visit our other tour page located here.
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First
we Receive potatoes specifically grown for making potato chips.
These potatoes may come from as close as Sand Mountain in north
Alabama to as far away as Grafton, North Dakota. In a normal week
we will unload and use over 1 Million pounds of chipping potatoes.
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From
the truck potatoes are conveyor into a storage/holding area that
is climate controlled until they are processed.
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From the storage
bins the potatoes are water flummed into the processing area, first
to be peeled and inspected. Then off to be sliced and rinsed on
final time before they go into the cooker. Then at a rate of over
3000 pounds per hour they are produced into potato chips. They next
are inspected again by a computer controlled chip sorter then its
off to the packaging line.
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Next some of
the chips have spice added and others remain unseasoned. Each bag
of chips has been weighed by state of the art computer controlled
potato chip packaging machines.
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High speed packaging
machines, some as fast as 100 bags per minute package and code each
bag produced. The finished bags of chips are then placed in the
appropriate case be our packers. These packers will
each pack hundreds of cases each day.
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Each product is
placed in a shipping container and a conveyor takes them into our
warehousing and shipping department.
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Cases of snacks
are then loaded on to transport trailers and ultimately arrive at
your favorite grocers.
