International food manufacturer capitalizes on modular process skid design
International Food Products, a food flavor and ingredient manufacturer, was moving and expanding operations to a new $20 million facility in St. Louis, MO. They approached EPIC Systems, a local design/build engineering firm, about providing pre-engineered sanitary blending skids equipped with multiple batch mixing systems for both their liquid and powder products. EPIC designed, built and integrated the sanitary process skids. In addition, EPIC integrated and expanded seven liquid and powder packaging lines.
To meet growing market demand, International Foods purchased the brownfield site of a closed Ford Motor Company plant in St. Louis. Partnering with EPIC Process Systems, they built a new facility and expanded production for both liquid and powder food product lines. The processing and pack out portions of this project were the heart of the $20 million expansion. The impact of this project included: