Soules Foods is a brand built on consistency and innovation, known across the U.S. for its high-quality, ready-to-cook and fully cooked meat and poultry products, many under its own consumer brand Soules Kitchen. The company’s products can be found from retail shelves to foodservice locations, and demand keeps pushing the company to grow. Its newest facility in Valley, Ala.—one of the most advanced poultry plants in North America—is a case in point. Beyond adding production capacity, the new site represents a shift toward high-efficiency automation, enabling the company to tackle rising demand, persistent labor challenges, and increasingly diverse product lines.
In 2024, the Valley team turned to Delkor Systems to solve a suite of pressing needs for operations that involved packing bags of proteins, chicken nuggets for instance, into corrugated cases. Requirements included boosting packaging speeds, reducing floor space, and simplifying changeovers across a broad mix of SKUs. The answer came in the form of EVO, a patented, vision-guided, six-axis cartesian robotic case packer that the company says is 33% smaller and as much as 50% faster than current technology.
