After relocating its primary coffee manufacturing from California to Texas, Farmer Brothers enlisted 澳门足彩app’s services for an 工程, 采购 and 建设 (EPC) project to expand production at a new facility in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The project was broken into multiple phases that began with master planning and design before moving into the actual project 执行 and startup. 总共, this new expansion would increase the facility’s production capacity to produce 96 million pounds of roasted coffee per year.
Our master plan for consolidating Farmer Brothers’ 烤 and packaging into one facility began with receiving areas for the raw materials, 在这种情况下, 绿咖啡豆. 从那里, the process included equipment for unloading, 清洁, 混合, 烤, grinding and flavoring the beans before sending them to packaging and palletizing the final product. Storage space was also planned and added to hold the beans prior to 烤. Additional handling systems to collect waste, 比如咖啡豆糠, 是否也包含在系统中, as was material-handling equipment designed to move 100 cases per minute from all packaging lines. 每个阶段都成功执行, including the completion of 开机调试 for all of the new systems.
With the new process and packaging lines up and running, Farmer Brothers is now able to provide additional production for its client accounts. As business continues to grow, we look forward to our continued partnership.