Where Teamsters Prepare Your Meals

Have you ever wondered where your canned food comes from, or how it was made? Well, there’s a good chance some of the cans in your pantry were made by your fellow Teamsters 89 brothers and sisters at Morgan Foods!

Founded in 1899, Morgan Foods is located in Austin, Indiana. The company employs 335 Teamsters represented by Business Agents Jim Kincaid and Jeff Cooper.

The company mixes, cans, cooks, labels, and distributes a wide array of canned food to stores all over the country. They make soups, beans, broths, gravies and sauces for a variety of stores such as Kroger, Meijer, Wal-Mart, Save-a-Lot, and Aldi’s. Teamster members are involved in this process from beginning to end.

The Process

The first step is to mix the raw ingredients together and cook them in enormous, 1,000 gallon kettles. Once thoroughly cooked, the product is placed into various sized cans.

Once in the can, the product moves down the line to a Seamer that places the lid on and hermetically seals the can, a process which creates an airtight seal which can keep the food inside fresh for years!

After the cans have been sealed, they move on to a giant pressure cooker that heats the cans up to high temperatures in order to eliminate any possible bacteria that could be present, making the product inside 100% completely safe for customers to eat.

Now cooked and sealed, the cans are placed in massive warehouses and allowed to incubate to ensure that everything came out just right. The length of time depends on the viscosity of that particular product. 

Finally, once all other steps have been followed and the product is complete, the cans move on to the labeling department in order to receive the proper label according to customer and product. Once labeled, the cans are ready for store shelves!

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