Stages of projects

Juice and concentrates production requires reliability and flexibility to ensure consistent, high quality, and high-volume product output. LTD “Innosystems” has extensive knowledge and experience delivering successful plant construction projects, where complex processes are designed and built with the utmost efficiency and precision. We help clients plan, design and construct juice and concentrates production plants with safety, quality, reliability and cleanliness as the guiding principles.

Selecting the site for a new juice and concentrates production plant is the first critical step in turning concept into reality.

Every site will have pros and cons, and the challenge is to strike a balance among competing needs.

What happens outside the plant is every bit as important as what happens inside the plant. For most plants, the hard-surfaced areas for roadways, parking lots, storage areas and sidewalks can cover up to one-and-a-half times the area under roof. The area required to accommodate inbound and outbound trucks, rail cars, employee parking, visitor traffic and routine deliveries, creates a complicated flow around the facility’s exterior.

Juice and concentrates production plants require a higher level of resistance to infestation and contamination from external sources than most other manufacturing plants. This does not mean that the plant should be designed like a bunker, but some common sense upgrades should be at the top of the list.

Exterior walls should be solid and devoid of open seams or cracks that would allow insects or vermin to enter the facility. In the same fashion, most juice and concentrates production plants want positive control of the airflow entering and exhausting the facility, so it is important that the exterior walls resist infiltration and exhalation of air. Doors, windows, roof and foundation attachment points should all be designed to resist infiltration. Leakage will always occur, but reducing it to a minimum saves operating costs over time.

For most juice and concentrates production plants, the roof area is considerably larger than the area of the exterior walls, so investing in a high quality roof system has an immediate payback for energy efficiency. In addition, newer roof designs incorporate reflective and absorbent areas to help balance heat loads in the building.

Juice and concentrates production must occur in a safe, clean environment. While it is possible to create these conditions at the initial startup, keeping the plant clean is a continuous process throughout the life of the manufacturing cycle. Sanitary plant design will consider both the location and barrier properties of internal walls to facilitate sanitation, provide climate control within the plant, and reduce cross-contamination across production areas.

LTD “Innosystems” has extensive experience providing site location, architectural design, engineering and construction services around existing operations.