Crinkle Cut French Fries (3D Design)
Fruit & Vegetables [400+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]CEITM was contracted by a large international vegetable processor to provide complete engineering services including design, procurement, project management, installation oversight and startup/commissioning services for a new Crinkle Cut French…
Fruit Processing Facility Relocation
Fruit & Vegetables [400+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]CEITM was contracted by an Oregon fruit processor to develop general arrangement/layout drawings for five existing process lines (food service, aseptic, canning, compote, and FIH) to be relocated to a newly purchased existing facility.
The…
Ammonia Piping Failure Analysis
Fruit & Vegetables [400+], Refrigeration [70+], Retrofit Projects [400+]
An international food processing company observed corrosion of their aging High-Pressure Liquid ammonia piping on a long run from the engine room to the processing plant so CEITM was hired to perform an engineering analysis and calculations…
Foreign Material Investigation
Dairy [200+], Retrofit Projects [400+]A large international food processing company received packaged cheese products from a small dairy processor in Nevada and claimed that the product was contaminated with foreign material in the form of small pieces of plastic during production.…
Chicory Processing
Fruit & Vegetables [400+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]CEITM was initially commissioned in 2017 to provide expedited final design and startup of a portion of a new chicory root processing line in Gering, Nebraska. The initial effort was a very fast paced emergency engineering effort to provide process…
Whey Process Expansion
Dairy [200+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]An existing dairy processing plant in the Midwest contracted CEI™ to provide the preliminary and final process engineering design to expand the capacity of the existing dairy production facility by several million pounds of milk per day for…
Fully Automated Canning Line
Canning, Retort, UHT & Aseptic [10+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]CEITM provided engineering services for the design and installation of a fully automated retort line for packaging of canned products. This automated design was fully comprehensive starting with empty cans and aseptic product, and ending with…
Seafood Facility SQF Renovation
Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+], Seafood [40+]CEITM provided plant design and scope development services to incorporate SQF requirements into a seafood processing facility renovation project. The specified plant design created the necessary distinct production zones with physical separation,…
Jerky Processor
Meats & Poultry [20+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]CEITM provided a broad spectrum of services to this meat jerky processor from engineering design to project management assistance in order to fully upgrade an existing processing line to a newer, more automated and efficient process. CEITM…
Extended Shelf Life Milk Filler
Dairy [200+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]CEI™ provided process and packaging engineering services for the design, procurement and installation of a new Extended Shelf Life Filler in an existing milk plant with a total project budget of ~ $3.5MM. This required detailed design work…