Why Choose IFAB to Design Your Assembled Food Product Plant?
To launch your new and innovative product, you need to collaborate with a partner that will get you to market quickly, and offer you guidance as you grow. Our diverse knowledge, gained from designing a variety of processing facilities in the food industry, allows us to design efficient and food-safe solutions that create optimal value for both the short and long-term.
Our Experience Designing Assembled Food Product Plants
Not all cooks have the same experience, and not all engineering companies have designed food processing plants.
When you’re investing in a strategic project for your food company, you don’t want a partner that is trying a new recipe with your budget.
We have worked with every type of assembled food manufacturing company. From food services, to ready-to-eat meals, we have expertise in creating hygienic, optimized spaces that work.
Assembled Food Products Processing
Features in past designs for assembled food product processing include:
- Hygienic design of building and mechanical and electrical infrastructure for vegetable processing, food service assembly, meat breading and cooking, IQF and dry ingredient mixing
- Continuous line oven, fryer, and charbroil operations
- Vegetable storage, sorting, cleaning, and cutting operations
- Large batch mixing of soups and sauces, including bulk ingredient metering
- Changeover from small quantity mixing to large quantity mixing
- Process flow analysis to eliminate bottlenecks and increase throughput
- Warehouse distribution systems for easy access to multiple ingredients and/or product lines
- Assembly of food service individual trays
- Wash down rooms for all moveable equipment, trays and tubs
- Packaging systems using pouches, bags, tubs – with mixed SKUs for individual consumption and food service
- Applicable design requirements from CFIA, USDA, BRC, AIB, and HACCP certifications
Portfolio: Assembled Food Products
Food-on-the-go is a reality. These projects helped our clients deliver it.
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Sous Vide Processing Experts
Alberta
Assisted a specialty start-up company moving to full commercialization of a ‘culinary arts meets technical innovation’ process.
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Airline Food Service Facility
Ontario
Renovated a multi-bay commercial unit into a single 45,000 square foot facility for cooking and assembling meals for airlines.
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Teaching and Innovation Centre
Southern Ontario
Renovated existing classroom space into a vegetable processing teaching facility, complete with high-speed tray pack.
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Lunch Kit Assembly Facility
Southern Ontario
Designed and coordinated renovation of a 54,000 square foot warehouse to a new CFIA approved lunch kit assembly facility.
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Ramen Home Kits
Ontario
This local favourite ramen shop pivoted in the pandemic restaurant closures of 2020 to mass produce over-the-top high-quality DIY kits, and relied on IFAB to provide insight and direction with the scale up and options for their new industrial facility.
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Cookie Craft Kits
Ontario
Food and art together! Provided analysis and multiple options to optimize production capabilities, increase throughput, and maximized storage for baked cookie and candy take home kits.
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Ready-to-Heat Meals Producer
Ontario
This maker of premium level meal assemblies in individual and family size portions required assistance with work practices for a smooth process flow, including an assessment of interconnectivity of multiple sites. The results of the assessment led to a rationalization of some SKUs and an overall reduction of touches per product.