Food & Drink
SECTORS – FOOD AND DRINK
Processing companies in this sector are faced with various challenges and opportunities such as:
- Innovating new or modified products to satisfy consumer tastes
- Stringent regulatory compliance
- Narrow profit margins
- Pressure to minimise internal engineering costs
- Use of Eco-friendly packaging materials
Hence, R B Plant are often chosen as a natural engineering consultancy partner due to our familiarity with sterilisation and aseptic processing and whose pharmaceutical expertise is a major asset.
Here are some of the benefits of partnering with R B Plant:
TRACK RECORD
- Long-term partnership with many of the following clients:
- Detailed design and EPCM of a:
- major Somerset dairy
- soup powder line for Premier Foods
- massive hydraulic press to extract and recover sugar cane juice for Tate and Lyle
- Successful execution of several brewery projects
PROJECT, COMMERCIAL AND LOGISTICAL EXPERTISE
R B Plant provide support through part of or the entire project lifecycle thereby avoiding major pitfalls which can result in a project stalling. Some examples are:
- Preparing cases for capital justifications and sanctioning
- Achieving planning permissions
- Obtaining approval from regulatory authorities such as the HSE, EA
- CDM
- Procurement
- Site services, logistics, infrastructure and supervision of sub-contractors ensuring adhesion to programme
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
- Civil, structural, architectural, process, mechanical, electrical, control, automation
- Aseptic processing, sterilising, heating and drying
- Development and commercialisation of new or enhanced technology
- Handling and processing bulk liquids and solids products
- Various processes such as:
- transferring bulk flour in a bakery
- colouring icing
- boiling soup
- frying potatoes
- chilling ice cream
- distilling gin
- puffing rice
