WELCOME TO
THE HOOD LAB
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Our Research & Development team helps bring your brand ideas to life, delivering on innovation, taste, and consistency. Hood’s Pilot Plant is specifically designed to answer the needs of new product and package development, trial production runs, and optimization solutions that generate cost efficiencies for our partners.
Quality is our
main ingredient
From dairy to plant-based and coffee beverages, our R&D team creates formulas that deliver on taste and consistency. Hood strives for excellence through quality assurance and a dedication to customer satisfaction.
Freshness
by Design
Hood provides advanced packaging solutions, offering customizable options, including aseptic and extended shelf-life formats, to ensure products remain fresh and visually appealing.
From Concept
to Creation
Our Pilot Plant helps scale ideas, allowing partners to develop, test, and refine every detail for a shelf-ready product.
GOODNESS
INSIDE AND OUT
The Food Safety and Quality (FSQ) team ensures every product manufactured upholds rigorous safety and quality benchmarks. Our experts collaborate to test, perfect, and meet our “better than good” standard at every step. Each product undergoes rigorous safety and quality assurance testing to exceed industry standards.
OUR FACILITIES
With state-of-the-art facilities spanning multiple locations, Hood delivers industry-leading manufacturing solutions to meet diverse production needs. Learn more about our extended-shelf-life and aseptic manufacturing operations, which are designed to ensure efficiency, quality, and scalability for projects of any size.
Bativia, NY
The HP Hood Batavia plant is 458,000 square feet situated on 133.4 acres of land nestled in beautiful Western New York between the Cities of Rochester and Buffalo. Purchased in 2017, the plant was retrofitted to process, package, and ship ESL (extended shelf life) dairy and no-dairy fluid products. The facility supports Hood branded and private label products along with branded products through licensing deals.
Oneida, NY
The HP Hood Oneida plant is 240,000 square feet on a 24.2 acres in beautiful Western New York. It was the first to introduce ESL (extended shelf life) capabilities in the U.S., and has added large expansions to include structure, fillers, silos, processors, coolers and property. The facility supports Hood branded and private label products along with branded products through licensing deals.
Sacramento, CA
HP Hood’s Sacramento CA facility is 159,000 square feet situated on 37 acres of land. It manufactures extended-shelf-life (ESL) and using state-of-the-art ultra-high-temperature (UHT) manufacturing with current packaging technologies. Purchased in 2007, the plant transformed from a conventional dairy plant to an extended shelf life (ESL) plant. The facility added aseptic capabilities in 2011, mirroring the aseptic filling capabilities of the HP Hood Winchester, Virginia, facility.
Winchester, VA
Our state-of-the-art facilities and commitment to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) help us ensure product quality is consistently maintained for the businesses we serveHood’s 465,000 square foot facility in Winchester, VA, opened in the fall of 2000 and manufactures extended-shelf-life (ESL) and aseptic beverages using state-of-the-art ultra-high-temperature (UHT) manufacturing with current and emerging packaging technologies. The facility sits on 78 acres of land and supports Hood branded and private label products along with branded products through licensing deals. The plant is one of the largest UHT facilities in North America.
Batavia, NY
The HP Hood Batavia plant is 458,000 square feet situated on 133.4 acres of land nestled in beautiful Western New York between the Cities of Rochester and Buffalo. Purchased in 2017, the plant was retrofitted to process, package, and ship ESL (extended shelf life) dairy and no-dairy fluid products. The facility supports Hood branded and private label products along with branded products through licensing deals.
