Sanitary Process Systems Experts
Process & Utility Piping Contractor
At Placer Process, we are turn-key design-build experts in sanitary process systems and licensed general engineering contractors, transforming the food and beverage industry through innovative approaches like Innovention, Naturique, and Upcycling. With state-of-the-art, automated, American-crafted process and utility systems, we deliver customized solutions to meet your unique manufacturing needs.
Whether you’re upgrading, expanding, modernizing, retrofitting existing infrastructure, or embarking on a complete design-build project, we provide comprehensive solutions to enhance plant efficiency, product quality, safety, and ultimately, customer satisfaction.
By combining the expertise of designers, fabricators, installers, and project managers into one cohesive team, we offer a fast-track approach to project delivery. At Placer Process, we’re more than process experts and stainless-steel system fabricators—we’re partners in your success.
– Livia Wijono, PE, MBA
VP of Operations
Building Transformative Food and Beverage Production and Pioneering the Next Era of Food and Beverage Manufacturing
At Placer Process, we are committed to helping our customers build the process systems of their dreams. From CIP systems to blending, fermentation, ingredients storage, and utility process systems, we customize every solution to meet your unique needs.
Our expertise is in designing and building equipment, processes, controls, and utility systems that seamlessly integrate with your plant infrastructure. At Placer Process, your satisfaction is our pride.
Our approach is comprehensive:
- Custom Design: Tailored solutions to fit your plant’s specific needs.
- Precision Fabrication: In-house craftsmanship and specialty stainless steel welding service ensuring quality and compliance. Whether it is ASME BPE welding for pharmaceutical and biotechnology systems or sanitary welding for food and beverage industries, our team brings years of welding expertise to deliver exceptional results.
- Seamless Installation: Expert implementation within your infrastructure.
- Efficient Project Management: A fast-track approach that ensures your project is delivered on time, on budget, and on task.
Every step of the process is backed by a highly skilled team of designers, fabricators, installers, and managers committed to achieving excellence. Together, we help shape the future of food and beverage manufacturing with innovative, scalable, and sustainable solutions.
We Also Offer These Services
Design
Fabrication
Our fabrication team is staffed with experts who work alongside our design team and are capable of meeting any of the various fabrication requirements.
Installation & Process Piping
Our design-build approach to installation and process piping provides operational advantages with a simplified contract to streamline the project and be more cost effective and time efficient
Controls & Automation
Placer Process can create well-designed sanitary process or utility systems with reliable controls and automation.
Field Services
Critical to a successful sanitary process systems project is the successful management of the project, and the supporting field services both during and after the installation and testing.
Mechanical, Welding & Plumbing
Our team of expert engineers, mechanical designers, process fabricators, piping layout experts, and skilled welders are capable to meet any mechanical and plumbing project needs for our customers.
Industries We Serve
Innovate and Overcome Your Toughest Food and Beverage Manufacturing Challenges with Placer Process
Our Expertise Creates Our Value
Our ability to be a strategic partner to world class clients in multiple industries is built around several competencies required for successfully delivering sanitary process system projects.
Sanitary Process Expertise
A strong appreciation for the unique needs of process manufacturers and sanitary systems, including wine, beer, beverages, all aspects of dairy, cheese, and food processors, gained by years of experience working on challenging design and installation projects.
Engineering and Design Driven
Years of hands-on process and controls engineering experience leading successful process system projects, from audit to design to fabrication to installation.
Breadth of Projects Delivered
A team of professionals with the experience and flexibility to successfully take on upgrade, expansion, modernization, and retrofit projects, as well as greenfield projects from the ground up.
General Contractor, We Do It All
Our ability to deliver the entire project using internal staff and strategic partners. We are a licensed general engineering contractor with experienced journeymen required for the project.
Compliant With Regulatory Requirements
Complete understanding of the current landscape of sanitation and regulatory requirements for process design considerations.
Innovative and Industry
Best Practices Driven
The ability to innovate and use the most current materials and technology to create long-lived systems that ensure our clients will not be modernizing anytime soon.
Committed to Quality
Years of learning and applying our experience to maintain the highest standards of construction, cleaning, and minimizing contamination that compromises product quality and consumer safety.
Client Focused, Bottom Line Oriented
Always remembering that our clients' ultimate goals are customer satisfaction driven by high quality and safe products, delivered with high plant productivity and efficiency, in a cost effective way.
Contact Us For Your Next Project
Types of Projects
We have successfully delivered custom sanitary process system projects for industry leaders, niche product producers, and start-ups including Wineries, Breweries, Dairy, Cheese, Food and Beverage.
The one thing we know for certain is that every project is unique – regardless of size, industry, or product. So much depends on the age of your equipment, tanks, and utilities, how your business has changed, your product mix, volume and throughput requirements, environmental concerns, new and changing regulations, and finally wear and tear.
Due to our experience with so many types of projects, we are uniquely qualified to solve virtually any challenge you can give us. We have clients that have engaged us to upgrade processes, adding new tanks and heat exchangers, expand a winery by adding tanks with interconnecting piping, modernize an aging process by adding sensors and automation, and retrofit an operating process by adding filters for multi-barrier ingredient protection.
Let us prove that you can trust us with your toughest plant challenges, and rely on us to get the job done – On Time, On Budget, On Task.
Examples of our work include:
- Design-build Clean-in-Place System for a liquid milk plant
- Complete process system design-build for an artisan cheese manufacturer
- CIP capable fermentors for UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology
- Boiler installation, steam piping, and steam-distribution design
- Water conservation engineering study, project planning and multi-phase budgeting
- Comprehensive turn-key design skid fabrication, as well as installation of process and utilities
