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Food & Beverage Manufacturing & Processing

Facilities Built Around Your Process. One Partner Built Around Your Business.

Whether you’re launching a new production facility, expanding an existing plant, or modernizing aging operations, success depends on more than constructing a building. It requires a partner who understands how process, production, food safety, and facility design work together, and most importanty takes the time to understand what success

ARCO brings that work together through one collaborative, accountable team. From the dirt to the bits and bytes, we can own the full project – process planning, design, engineering, procurement, controls and automation, construction, startup, and commissioning – or tailor our role to the scope you need. Whether you want ARCO to deliver the building while your team owns the process, or a single partner to take the entire project from concept through operation, our flexible design-build approach is built around your business.

Robotic palletizing cells and conveyor lines inside a large beverage production facility

The Challenges Are Bigger Than Construction

Food manufacturers aren’t simply building buildings. You’re making decisions that affect production, food safety, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and future growth.

Whether you’re adding a new processing line, replacing aging infrastructure, expanding production, or developing an entirely new facility, every decision influences how efficiently your operation performs for years to come.

What We Build

Processing Facilities

  • Meat & Protein
  • Dairy
  • Bakery
  • Prepared Foods
  • Produce Processing
  • Seafood
  • Ingredients & Nutraceuticals
  • Pet Food

Beverage Facilities

  • Soft Drinks
  • Coffee & Tea
  • Alcoholic Beverages
  • Bottling & Packaging
  • High-Speed Beverage Production

Specialized Operations

  • Cold Storage
  • Distribution
  • Packaging Facilities
  • Ingredient Processing
  • Co-Manufacturing Facilities
  • Central Kitchens
  • Food Manufacturing Support Facilities

This list is illustrative, not exhaustive. If your facility type or production process is novel, specialized, or emerging, we want to understand it and explore how our team can help.

Every Project Starts Somewhere Different

No two food and beverage projects (or businesses) are the same. We start with curiosity: learning your operation, goals, constraints, and where you want to grow. From there, we shape the right scope and delivery model for your project, whether ARCO owns the building, the full process and facility, or something in between.

Greenfield Facilities

Building new production capacity from the ground up.

Facility Expansions

Increase production while maintaining existing operations.

Facility Modernization

Upgrade aging infrastructure, replace processing equipment, improve efficiency, and extend the life of your facility.

Building Conversions & Adaptive Reuse

Transform existing buildings into modern food-safe manufacturing environments.

One Team, Flexible Delivery

Process Engineering

Work collaboratively with your team to align production processes, utilities, equipment, facility design, and business goals from the earliest planning stages.

Equipment Planning & Integration

Plan and integrate processing equipment, utilities, building systems, controls, and future expansion so the facility works as one connected operation.

Hygienic Facility Design

Design facilities that support sanitation, food safety, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

Production While Operating

Develop renovations, additions, and phased construction strategies that protect ongoing production while moving improvements forward.

Startup & Commissioning

Coordinate facility readiness, equipment startup, commissioning, and operational transition so your team can move confidently from construction right into production.

Flexible Design-Build & Turnkey Delivery

Choose the level of project ownership that fits your business. ARCO can deliver the facility through design-build while your team manages process systems, or serve as the single accountable partner for an end-t-end, turnkey project encompassing process planning, design, engineering, procurement, controls and automation, construction, startup and commissioning.

ARCO team member in a safety vest and hard hat shaking hands with a client on a job site

Why Food Manufacturers Choose ARCO

A trusted partner from the first question to the first production run.

We believe the best projects start with curiosity. Whether you’re an established manufacturer adding capacity or a rapidly growing company building your first production facility, our team invests the time to understand how your business works, what is driving the project, and what could stand in the way of success..

Then we work alongside you to turn that understanding into smarter decisions. By bringing process, design, engineering, procurement, controls and construction together early, we help uncover risks, identify opportunities, and keep the project moving with greater clarity and confidence. The result is a collaborative experience designed to make complex projects feel simpler, and to create facilities that help our customers succeed and grow.

Food plant team in hairnets, masks and lab coats reviewing plans on tablets in a processing facility

Expertise That Extends Beyond Construction

Our team brings technical depth across the systems that shape modern food manufacturing facilities. Depending on your project, ARCO can directly deliver these scopes, integrate them through trusted partners, or coordinate with owner-contracted specialists, including:

  • Hygienic facility design
  • Food safety planning
  • FSMA considerations
  • USDA and FDA regulated environments
  • Process equipment coordination
  • Utility planning
  • Cleanability and sanitation
  • Process flow optimization
  • Equipment layouts
  • P&IDs
  • HAZOP / Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) / Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA_participation and coordination
  • PSM program support and coordination
  • Startup and commissioning planning
  • Turnkey automation and controls system delivery through ARCO and trusted partners
  • Controls integration with process equipment, utilities and building systems
  • Coordinate with owner-selected controls and automation contractors when preferred

Ready to Grow?

Whether you’re planning your first processing facility, expanding production, or modernizing an existing operation, ARCO can meet you where you are. Bring us the challenge, and our Food & Beverage team will help define the smartest path forward!

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