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Food & Biotech

Process Engineering has many years of experience working with food & biotech. We work with you to provide the best possible process solution.

In partnership with our clients we contribute with process solutions that produce healthy and sustainable food of a high quality. The process design focuses on solutions that are technologically innovative, sustainable and resource-efficient. Our design solutions handle e.g. the food and biotech industry’s objectives for the green transition and thus a reduction of CO₂ by 2030.

We have extensive knowledge of food and biotech processing plants based on general good manufacturing practice for hygienic equipment, components and materials that are used to handle, process and package products in which a high degree of hygiene is required. The design of process plants and process lines complies with acknowledged hygienic standards such as the EHEDG guidelines, the 3-A sanitary standards and EU regulation 1935/2004 regarding materials and objects intended for contact with food, etc.

Our services include end-to-end engineering process design, where we have many years of practical experience from process plants and process lines. Our various projects related to process plants and process lines within food & biotech give us the required knowledge in several industries. Below you can read more about the various industries.

Contact me for more information

Michael Hastrup Andersen

Director, Food & Biotech Section

Phone: +45 2481 0506

Mail: mha@proeng.dk

We offer

With Process Engineering as your interdisciplinary engineering partner, your project is in focus. We manage the entire project with reporting to e.g. the steering group, and we take part as a part of a project team with reference to your project manager or as a specific consulting service under your management.

We offer feasibility studies, conceptual and basic design, detailed design, installation and commissioning and handover. We have experience of many technologies and unit operations across the food & biotech sector, which you can read more about below in the areas ingredients, dairies, breweries and soft drinks, slaughterhouse & processing and the fish industry, plus bakery, confectionary & cereals.

Ingredients

Our competences based on practical experience in relevant technologies and the ability to perform detailed design make us one of the leading consultants in the ingredient industry. The ingredient industry manufactures several innovative products, where IP rights are crucial. Naturally, they are somewhat secretive about the process and are not always interested in one turnkey supplier to the process plant. For this reason they need consultants who understand the details of the technologies and, among other things, can handle the interfaces between these.

Some of the projects are devised in a university environment and are usually of an innovative nature where the ingredients live up to the functional healthy properties and create a circular supply chain through utilisation of residual products from other food productions. Other ingredients extend the foods’ durability. By means of this Process Engineering lives up to the UN Sustainable Development Goals – a fact that we are pleased with.

The dairy industry

We offer our extensive knowledge of process plants to the dairy industry both at home and abroad for all projects no matter what is the size and complexity. We perform operational reviews of existing process plants and process lines, and we offer flexible and increased resource management for your technical department. Our involvement in projects enables “fast track” execution and CapEx optimisation. We manage all the functions in the project organisation from the project manager, the technical project management, the process engineer, site management, supervision, the run-in responsible and engineer, safety coordination as well as documentation.

Our competences comprise powder management, recombination plants, silo & container storage, fresh milk plants, heat treatment, aseptics, fermentation plants, cheese plants, crystallisation, separation and filtration processes, hydrolysis plants, active coal plants, decalcification plants, electrodialysis plants, butter and oil plants, ice cream plants, concentration through evaporation, drying plants for powder, filling and packaging machines, powder packaging, finished goods management and CIP plants.

Brewery and soft drinks

The brewery and soft drinks industry includes breweries and soda, juice and mineral water factories. These factories and process plants can benefit from our competences and experiences in all or parts of the processes.

Our knowhow includes raw material management such as powder, sugar, dissolver and mixing and dosage plants, cleaning, fermentation, inactivation/heat treatment, filling machines and understanding of component and instrument choices in the process design.

Slaughterhouse & processing and the fish industry

Based on our experience in the slaughterhouse and processing industry, we offer our services for solution proposals in relation to the entire processing chain to do with the slaughter of living animals and deboning and packaging of cold meat.

Today our internal competences cover:

Slaughter, cutting, deboning and packaging
Logistics, processing, retail packaging, warehouse and service
Hygiene solutions, staff and product flow
Automation, MES and IT

We offer our services at home and abroad and the projects are very different. In the preliminary phases of projects, we prepare master plans for the production facilities based on the client’s own feasibility study as well as reviews and discussions about procurement, installation and run-ins of packaging lines. Our practical hands-on experience means that you have the opportunity to discuss operations.

Bakery, confectionary & cereals

Bakery, confectionary & cereals include, among other things, bakeries, snacks, candy and confectionary manufacturing, cereals, convenience food and alcohol distillation. These factories and process plants have synergy and can benefit from our competences and experiences.

Our competences are based on our experience of operation and process design and cover:

Powder management, storage and packaging of powders
Requirements specifications
Risk analysis (HAZOP), zone classification (ATEX) and CE marking
Process design and validation of process plants and process lines incl. component and instrument choice

Our projects within Food & Biotech

Expansion of production of ingredients for milk powder

In cooperation with the customer, we have carried out this "green field project" and made it as a full commercial production factory.

Client consultancy in connection with establishment of production for HMO

The project included reconstructing and making ready existing production facilities used for production of feed for ingredient production for food.

Structural project for mapping of Norwegian cheese production

Visiting and inspecting all of TINE Meierierne AS’ six factories, preparing a complete capacity analysis and devising a production diagram for each factory.

Production of ingredients for e.g. breast milk substitute

Expanding an existing process plant and a green field process plant.

CE marking of plant at dairy

CE marking of a production line for snacks, including cheese, nuts and dried fruit.

Local exhaust ventilation for packing lines and a central vacuum cleaning system

Installation of new local exhaust ventilation for two packing lines and a new and central vacuum cleaning system.

Safety barrier in shipping warehouse

Installation of a safety barrier in a shipping warehouse featuring a layout that allows people to safely work in the warehouse while it is operating.

Purchase and commissioning of a train of carriages for internal transport

Purchasing and commissioning a train of carriages for internal transport inside a factory area, where the goods and the packaging are not subjected to the weather

Replacement of an NH3 refrigeration plant with a central glycol refrigeration system

Replacement of an existing NH3 refrigeration plant with a new, central glycol refrigeration system while the system was still supplying production with cooling.

Pilot project of UHT plant

Pilot project of a long-life product with technical consulting of a process plant for integration of the existing plant and CIP.

Design of product cooler

Design of product cooler for continuous cooling of the product based on capacity expansion

Pilot project for mixing plant

Upgrade and streamline of a mixing plant in an ice cream factory to meet the requirements for quality, flexibility and future capacity.

As-build PI Diagram glycidol plant

Phrasing of PI Diagram standard and subsequently as-build PI Diagram documentation on glycidol plant.

Project management of investment project

Project management of investment project with extension and building of production and office spaces, process, CIP and supply plants

Design services for test plant

Design services for a test plant in an innovation centre with a process plant featuring advanced process technologies for development of the products’ functionality and durability.

Design and documentation basis for Alfa Laval test centre

Engineering and drawing assistance regarding design and documentation basis for a new test centre.

CE marking of new unloading facility

CE marking of new unloading facility in the port of Skagen.

Development of a new process solution in mixing facility for ice cream

Development of a new process solution in mixing facility for ice cream and project management of the process plant.

Pilot project of Protein Pilot Plant

Pilot Project of a process plant for construction of a "Protein Launch Plant" based on fishmeal from krill pellets.

CIP facility to the food industry

For a customer, who provides process solutions to the food industry, we designed a CIP facility with item list, PI Diagram and operating instructions.

Process & Commissioning Manager in construction of a new greenfield cheese factory

Process & Commissioning Manager to manage til overall project management.

Financial and schedule management for the new plant for the production of milk powder and infant formula

Extra resource as planner and controller in the establishment of a new plant for prodution of milk powder and infant formular

Innovative and sustainable manufacturing plant for the food industry

Process Engineering provides consulting services to Comet Bio for its process plant. We collaborate across the project with the owner of the bioethanol and with authorities in connection with environmental approval

Preparation of EC Declaration of a partly completed machinery

Preparation of an EC Declaration of a partly completed machinery according to EU 1936/2004 on a used bag filter to be installed in a food production

Graasten Go Green

Graasten Salater is expanding their production facilities, and Process Engineering delivers consulting services to the project regarding the process plant

Industrial soup boiler incl. CIP system

Finished design of PI Diagram based on PFD, dimensioning of containers, pipes and cooking kettle, and also design of special CIP solutions for cleaning open containers and pipes

Commissioning Manager

Run-in responsible during the running-in of cheesery in Neumünster, Germany

Process engineer for the food industry

Services for a process design of a process plant in the food industry both at home and abroad, PI Diagram, database (inventory) quotation request, purchase, FAT with client, documentation, CE marking and CAD design