Agri-Food
Agri-Food
Challenges Facing the Agri-Food Industry
The agri-food industry comprises companies that process raw materials (from agriculture, livestock, or fisheries) into food products intended primarily for human consumption. It is the industry with the largest number of companies in France, encompassing a wide variety of professions.
This industry faces new social, societal, and environmental challenges.
Aware of the need to preserve biodiversity, agri-food manufacturers are reinventing their production methods by optimizing resource management and making their energy mix greener.
- Supporting you throughout the entire lifecycle of your projects and equipment
- Dairy Products
- Infant Food
- Meat, deli meats, cured meats, animal feed
- Beverages, malted beverages
- Bread, pastries, Viennese pastries, ingredients
- Ready-to-eat meals, catering
- Seafood
- Fruits, fresh and frozen vegetables
- Wines and Spirits
Food and Beverage Industry: Overcome Your Performance Challenges
Performance, Price, and Lead Times
With our turnkey and custom solutions, we are committed to performance, pricing, and on-time delivery. Our technological solutions for the food industry draw on our full range of expertise, from design to maintenance. You’ll benefit from long-term support, particularly regarding financing for your facilities.
- Study - Design - Installation - Commissioning - Maintenance
- Technical and Energy Performance
- Regulatory Compliance
- Carbon Footprint Reduction
- Financing Solutions
Food Security
FLOW MANAGEMENT
- Materials/Products: Product tracking, traceability, inspection…
- People: Robotics / Automation
- Air: Air handling units, air chambers
- Cold Chain
CLEANING
- Fluids and pipes
- Clean-in-place
- Wastewater treatment
Process Security and Optimization
SECURITY OF AGRI-FOOD PROCESSES
- Control, hypervision, predictive monitoring
- Availability of technical facilities
OPTIMIZATION OF AGRI-FOOD PROCESSES
- Support for capacity expansion
- Product development, new recipes
- Solutions for pasteurization, cooling/freezing, and ripening
A single point of contact throughout the entire value chain
Maximize the long-term performance of your assets, processes, and buildings!
Our experts support you throughout the entire lifecycle of your facilities, from design to operation and maintenance, including financing, qualification, and construction.
Cutting-edge expertise for the agri-food industries
Controlled Environments
Protecting people and handled products from potential contamination or interactions with unfiltered air.
Refrigeration
The solution to the challenges of cold chain security, operational optimization, and energy and environmental performance.
Process fluids
For your production equipment: preparation and formulation skids, CIP/SIP, decontamination, and the use of all types of fluids and process utilities.
Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 is based on three fundamental pillars:
- Improving operational performance
- Anticipating risk events
- Optimizing energy and environmental performance
Fire Safety
Meet your insurer’s requirements by protecting your building, inventory, and production equipment from fire risk with our expertise in sprinkler systems and portable fire hoses—from design through installation approval and equipment maintenance.
Energy Management
Reducing production costs and energy consumption? A top priority for players in the industrial sector!
Equans France offers its Smarteo solution: a simple and effective way to track your industrial facilities’ energy consumption and carbon footprint so you can take effective action.
Spotlight on: Airflow—A Wall-Mounted Diffuser for Cleanrooms
The BC unidirectional laminar flow diffuser protects a confined process area without requiring the entire cleanroom volume to be conditioned. Used primarily in the food processing industry, the BC diffuser ensures ultra-clean conditions around a confined process, achieving ISO 4 cleanliness in the protected areas.
- The reward:
- Only the areas that need to be protected are ventilated,
- a diffuser that adapts to all shapes or unidirectional flows,
- low energy consumption,
- side skirts that are easy to remove and clean,
- highly mobile equipment that can be moved throughout the entire production area
Toward a Sustainable Agri-Food Industry
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- Combining Carbon Neutrality with Responsible ProgressBy optimizing your production:
- Process Engineering
- Design and Project Management for “Multi-Fluid” Systems
- Studies, consulting, design, and calculations for equipment (tanks, agitators, cookers, etc.) in accordance with the most stringent standards, codes, and regulations
- Workshop Pre-assembly (Skids)
- Pipe assembly (including orbital welding)
- Optimized solutions for cooling (refrigeration and air conditioning) and heating
- Maximum facility availability (predictive maintenance—24/7 on-call service)
- Process Control System
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- Use low-carbon energy and resourcesThanks to improved energy efficiency:
- Energy Audit
- Measurement Campaign
- Analysis, Review, and Evaluation of Applications for the Energy Savings Certificate (CEE) and the Energy Performance Contract (CPE)
- Electrical Erasure
- Support for ISO 50001 certification and CSR policy initiatives
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- Through more sustainable and connected industrial buildings:In conjunction with temperature control, ventilation is managed on a cyclical basis to counteract the natural respiration of the fruit, which releases ethylene.
- Natural and Carbon-Free Refrigerants
- Renewable energy production (solar photovoltaic and thermal, geothermal, biomass)
- Production and Distribution of Energy Fluids
- Management and Utilization of Effluents and Waste Heat
- Air Treatment and Indoor Air Quality
- Smart Equipment and Maintenance Management
- (GTC, connected devices, etc.) / IoT / Cybersecurity
- BIM / Virtual Twin of a Pipeline
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