After 88 years of Tastykake manufacturing, the two Hunting Park facilities that shared the bulk of the load for Philadelphias most delicious confection are moving to their new, modern, and more sustainable home at the Philadelphia Naval Yard.
While we celebrate our new bakery and the future of the Tastykake brand with significantly-enhanced manufacturing capabilities, we simultaneously celebrate the legacy of the Hunting Park bakery, says Tasty Baking Company President and Chief Executive Officer Charles P. Pizzi. ”Now that we have transitioned all seven of our production lines to the new facility at the Navy Yard, we can turn our focus to the optimization of our operations there.
Those optimization efforts include automated baking equipment and a “straight line flow” from production to packaging to warehouse that Tastykake hopes will lead to innovation in their packaging centers. The materials, heating and cooling systems, water conservation, and daylight harvesting systems earned the facility a LEED Gold certification, making the facility the largest LEED certified bakery in the nation. The move completes a three-year transition plan and an 88-year history in Hunting Park; a tradition, Pizzi says, the company remains quite proud of. The new bakery’s lobby features an oversized wall print of the Hunting Park facility.
“We believe that the many chapters of Tastykake history at the Hunting Park bakery will be tightly bound to those chapters that we will begin to write at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pizzi said.
Source: Charles Pizzi, Tastykake
Writer: John Steele