Sanitary Process Systems Upgrade Specialists
Plant Upgrade Experts for Wineries, Dairy, Cheese, Breweries, Food & Beverage
Running and maintaining an efficient, high throughput plant for food and beverage manufacturer is a constant challenge. Aging tanks, process systems, utilities, and piping, create the need to introduce a replacement equipment and piping. Upgrading projects have been the go-to choices for many manufacturing plants either for safety, or product quality, and/or efficiency improvement initiatives.
Having a strategic partner can ensure you are able to successfully meet the need to upgrade your equipment quickly and cost effectively. Our strategic partnership considers solutions that can make this process much easier and less disruptive. Placer Process’s experienced team are sanitary process systems design-build experts that can help you address your most challenging needs in the plant as they arise.
Sanitary Process System Upgrade Experts
One of our sweet spots, and the focus of a significant number of our past projects is sanitary and utility process system upgrades for wine, dairy, cheese,, beer, food and beverage manufacturers. There are many situations where upgrading existing tanks, processes, utilities and piping is the preferred approach to taking advantage of a new opportunity or solving a problem.
As a general and engineering contractor, our internal team is seamlessly capable of managing your entire upgrade project, or part of it, depending on your needs. We have design and process engineers, fabrication staff, and controls and automation experts, as well as project management staff available to successfully deliver all dimensions of your project.

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Contact us to arrange a call or meeting to discuss your sanitary process needs and find out how our solutions can improve quality and safety, while reducing production downtime.

Examples of Upgrade Work
The Placer Process team is fully capable of working within your existing plant infrastructure to upgrade your processes quickly and efficiently, reduce line downtime and disruptions to your product and delivery schedule. Examples of upgrade projects we have successfully completed include:
- Removal of existing manual swing elbows to the automatic valve manifold configuration to increase process flexibility, minimize operator risks, and improve efficiency during change overs.
- Introduction of a hot water boiler and utility piping distribution system as the heating utility for process pre-heater and CIP systems.
- Replacement of aging storage tanks, batching tanks, and vats to newer, larger tanks to accommodate increasing output with flexibility of frequent recipe changeovers supplying multiple filler lines.
These are just a few specific examples of how we can help you upgrade your existing equipment in the plan.

Why Work With Placer Process For Your Sanitary System Plant Upgrades?
Our core team have spent years in sanitary process environments helping companies like yours with your toughest plant challenges. Our holistic approach ensures that all our work is in alignment with your expectations of a strategic partner, focused on your project needs, and in sync with your core values. Our work is always focused on minimizing down time and disruptions, while always completing our project On Time, On Budget, and On Task.
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 is the foundation of our projects
- Tremendous breadth of experience and capability, based our combined years of work in in the food, beverage, dairy, cheese, brewery, and winery industry
- Dedicated field labor skills to get your project vision accomplished
- Our commitment to innovation and best practices is embedded in every project
- Our projects are client focused and bottom line oriented