Milo’s Tea Company
Milo’s Tea Company selected Hixson to design and engineer a greenfield, $130 million manufacturing and distribution facility to produce tea and lemonade products. The scope of the 180,000 SF project, which also incorporates office and employee welfare space, included master planning, site selection, process and packaging engineering, building and utilities…
Read moreEurofins Genomics
In late 2021, Eurofins Genomics, a division of global analytical testing leader Eurofins Scientific, selected Hixson to design and engineer a new, 72,000 SF greenfield facility in Louisville, Kentucky. At completion, this $20+ million, two-story facility will contain multiple lab spaces, office space, and a warehouse space. The lab types…
Read moreMaple Leaf Foods
Leading consumer protein company Maple Leaf Foods selected Hixson to design and engineer a new, 640,000 SF, $720 million value-added fresh poultry facility in London, Ontario. Up to 100 million fresh chickens can be processed per year at the plant, which is one the most advanced poultry-processing facilities in the…
Read moreAbbott Nutrition
Food Engineering’s 2017 Food Plant of the Year, Abbott Nutrition’s Tipp City, OH plant produces popular nutritional supplements, including Ensure®, PediaSure® and Glucerna®. Hixson designed Phase 2 renovations at the plant, including the addition of a second line. The facility features Abbott’s fastest low-acid aseptic filling line in the world…
Read moreFortune 50 National Client
Since 2017, Hixson has provided architecture, interior design, engineering, and Workplace Strategy services for an industry-leading, Fortune 50 company. In this role, Hixson has completed numerous workplace projects spanning the company’s national real estate footprint, including areas within its corporate headquarters location. These projects have ranged from simple office refreshes…
Read moreBurke – Seed Strategy
For growth acceleration firm Seed Strategy, the concept of a “treehouse” has long represented a stage for the sort of boundless creativity, close collaboration and purposeful play that fires breakthrough innovation. Today, that metaphor is realized in downtown Cincinnati with Seed Strategy’s new headquarters, a modern, treehouse-inspired home located on…
Read morePETNET
When PETNET Solutions, a division of Siemens Healthineers, required a new manufacturing facility for the specialized production and distribution of short half-life radioisotopes used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) diagnostic imaging, they selected Hixson. At start-up, the greenfield 7,500 SF facility houses one cyclotron – the equipment required to develop…
Read moreVitalus
Facing compelling business drivers, Vitalus selected Hixson to expand its existing facility in Western Canada. One primary goal was to significantly increase processing capacity, growing from 130 million liters to 565 million liters of milk received from two Canadian provinces over a six-year ramp up. The project was also designed…
Read moreUnither
Faced with a 1950s-era building and an aging infrastructure, Unither Pharmaceuticals, a leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), tapped Hixson to help upgrade and expand their manufacturing facility in Rochester, New York. When constructed, the nearly 44,000 SF first level will accommodate a new Blow, Fill, and Seal (BFS)…
Read moreSt. Jude Children’s Center
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital selected Hixson to re-imagine a brownfield building into a high-quality early education center for the children of its employees. Originally created in the first half of the 20th century, the 26,500 SF facility is conveniently located just five minutes from St. Jude’s main campus in…
Read moreMane, Inc.
After experiencing years of double-digit growth, global French corporation Mane, Inc. selected Hixson to create a new, world-class North American headquarters facility. Completed in September 2012, the $32 million, 85,000-square-foot Cincinnati Development Center is a distinctive facility designed to be second to none. Hixson ensured Mane could fully close the…
Read moreSamuel Adams
Hixson has provided architecture and engineering services for numerous projects at the Samuel Adams Cincinnati Brewery for over a decade. For this $85MM project, Hixson designed building, utilities, and infrastructure for additional canning lines, a new AS/RS building, a new ISEP building, and a renovation of an existing warehouse. Extensive…
Read moreMedpace Biorepository
Medpace, a Clinical Research Organization (CRO) providing Phase I-IV clinical development services, recently added biorepository services to its mix of offerings, enabling biological specimens for scientific investigation to be collected, processed, stored and distributed. To enable the delivery of these services, Hixson worked with Medpace to determine its storage needs and create…
Read moreMedpace CT/CH
When a long-time client wanted to move some critical product testing work to Cincinnati, Medpace, a Clinical Research Organization (CRO) delivering Phase I-IV clinical development services, turned to Hixson. Capitalizing on experience in R&D and food manufacturing, Hixson brought innovative new ideas to the design of a Constant Temperature/Constant Humidity…
Read moreT. Marzetti
To meet growing demand, the T. Marzetti Company selected Hixson to design and engineer a $22.8 MM expansion to an existing dairy production facility located in Columbus, Ohio. The project adds 17,000 SF and three new packaging lines to the facility, with additional renovations to improve material and ingredient storage,…
Read moreSkidmore
Skidmore Sales & Distributing is a leading distributor of ingredients for food processors and manufacturers, handling over 5,000 ingredients from more than 200 suppliers each year. Facing rapid growth, Skidmore approached Hixson to design a new 12,000 sq. ft. office addition, along with a 12,000 sq. ft. renovation of existing…
Read moreNestle NQAC
The Nestle Quality Assurance Center (NQAC), which offers specialized services, factory hygiene, and food safety systems on a 24/7 basis to Nestle production facilities throughout the Americas, had reached maximum capacity and was beginning to turn away work. Nestle partnered with Hixson to develop a master plan designed to address…
Read moreGraydon
Graydon, a 145-year-old law firm, wanted its offices to reflect its image as an innovative and vibrant law firm and improve its engagement with younger employees, clients and the community. Hixson, in partnership with brand design consultant Kolar Design, created a light-filled, colorful space that features private offices with new…
Read moreNational Beverage Manufacturer
A leading U.S. beverage manufacturer purchased a brownfield facility to serve as its headquarters and manufacturing operations. Although less than 10 percent of the facility – 40,000 square feet – was allotted for office and employee welfare purposes, every inch needed to reflect the grandeur of a global flagship. Employees…
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