Sanitary & Utility Process System Design and Equipment Installation for Food Extracts and Infused Beverages
Get Ahead of the Competition with Expert Design, Fabrication, & Installation for your Food Extraction Lab or Infused Beverages Facility
The rapid growth in popularity of infused food and beverages in America leaves many small-scale labs and start-up facilities puzzling the best way to scale their small-batch production to meet the ever-increasing demand for food extracts and infused beverages for mass consumption. In addition to these challenges companies are also facing new regulations from a variety of governmental bodies that all need to be met in order to operate.
Competitors are scrambling to be the first to bring new flavored infused food, beverages, and/or vitamin products to market and scale production to meet the huge demand for consumer goods containing a specific percentage of flavor as this ingredients can be pricy and highly concentrated. The best way to get ahead of the competition is to partner with experts who have experience up-scaling the facilities with modern utility and sanitary process systems that allow for upscaling small batch operations quickly, efficiently, and safely.

Benefits of Professionally Upgrading and Modernizing Your Extraction and Infusion Processes
A common challenge we help our customers overcome is creating the extraction room designed to meet the specific demands of your lab or facility. Proper design, assembly, and installation of extraction or infusion equipment and supporting utilities is paramount to increasing production while maintaining consistent concentration for every batch.
In addition to making the most of every harvest, you can expect extraction and infusion equipment built by Placer Process to:
- Achieve the targeted extract concentration consistently
- Preserve maximum amount of essences critical to your flavor profile
- Be operated easily and safely by workers
- Meet necessary regulations and codes for the food and beverage as well as other applicable industry
- Meet local environmental requirements
- Optimized supporting utility systems and process piping
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Configuring Extraction Rooms and Scaled-Up Infusion Processes for Food and Beverage Infused Products
Our talented team of engineers, designers, project managers, and site supervisors are capable of planning, fabricating, installing and supporting your sanitary process systems. From design, to producing engineering deliverables, 3D CAD modeling, custom process skid assemblies, and field installation, we are capable of addressing all your project needs.
We setup flavor extraction rooms for a variety of extraction methods including CO2, butane, or without using additives. Placer Process team can design, assemble, and install extraction room for small, medium, or large scale to produce concentrates and extracts as needed for your process.

The Benefits of Partnering with a Design-Build General Engineering Contractor
As a general engineering contractor, Placer Process utilizes an integrated approach to successfully execute your sanitary alternative specialty food and beverage expansion project–from design to practical sanitary installation assemblies, safety, quality, environmental requirements, operational excellence, and consideration for your future growth.
We have decades of experience working with various traditional as well as alternative specialty food and beverage categories, such as meat and protein alternatives, fermentation products, gluten-free products, vegan food and beverages, infused beverages, prepared foods, sauces, fruit and nut processing plants, bottled water, sports and energy drinks, carbonated drinks, juices, confectionary, and other types of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Examples of our Work for Specialty Food and Beverage Plants
Some of the sanitary process systems projects we have successfully delivered to our Alternative Specialty Food and Beverage clients include:
- Bulk dry and liquid ingredient receiving systems
- Hydration and mixing systems
- Kettle design, piping, and installation
- High shear or liquifying systems
- Holding, mixing, and batching tank design and installation
- Product transfer system installation
- High-accuracy blend manifolds
- Clean-in-Place systems installation, modification, and/or upgrades
- Pasteurizers
- HTST
- Filtration systems
- Mineral injection systems
- Automatic valve manifolds
- Manual transfer panels
- Filler and packaging line installation

Our team of sanitary process systems experts, from engineers to designers, project managers, and site supervisors are always focused on budget, process capability, redundancy, and flexibility. We have worn many hats within projects from design, fabrication, installation, all the way to turn-key capacity involving building upgrades, mechanical, electrical, and controls to deliver a complete solution.
We consider all aspects within the production as well as sanitation your system with all-inclusive custom and robust clean-in-place (CIP) piping and assemblies developed for demanding duty of allergen ingredient and production. We have experience designing systems for difficult application, such as vegan slurry, gluten-free dough, and varying product consistencies for alternative protein application.
Why Work with Placer Process on Your Alternative Specialty Food and Beverage Project?
Due to our years of experience, Placer Process can be your go-to partner for all of your specialty alternative food and beverage plant’s mechanical, process and utility system needs. We work with food and beverage operations to modernize, retrofit, upgrade, and expand existing plant systems, ensuring minimal disruption and downtime, while always completing our project On Time, On Budget, and On Task.
Our focus on People, Products, and the Planet ensure that all our work is in alignment with your expectations for a strategic partner, your project needs, and your core values.
When you work with Placer Process you can expect:
- Our well-seasoned project managers are involved from design to installation to any follow-up and support needs.
- Our strength in Engineering and Design as the foundation of our projects
- Tremendous breadth of experience and capability, based our combined years of work in in the specialty alternative food and beverage industry
- Dedicated field labor skills to get your project vision accomplished
- Our commitment to innovation and best practices to be embedded in every project
- Our projects are client focused and bottom line oriented