For the third year in a row, Gray is Engineering News-Record‘s No. 1 firm for the food & beverage industry. With more than $1 billion in customer projects completed over the past year, we offer proven experience and cutting-edge facilities with fully integrated engineering, design, construction, digital, and equipment manufacturing services.
Defining Success Your Way
A complex industry demands a creative, flexible partner who can lead you toward your vision of success. Long a leader in design-build project delivery, our philosophy lies in a collaborative and adaptive approach that offers a wide range of quality services while facilitating speed to market. As our customers grow and encounter new challenges, Gray has enhanced our proven design-build model to encompass a more complete partnership with customers. We go beyond traditional engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC), developing custom solutions for process & packaging automation, controls integration, and process equipment manufacturing–all within design-build delivery’s single point of responsibility and the Gray family that you trust. The result is a unique approach to turnkey project execution that offers fully integrated services in engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and construction—EPMC™.
We can’t wait to start crafting a custom solution for your next food & beverage project. Whether you need discrete service for designing and commissioning a new high-speed bottling line, a hybrid approach to process engineering and equipment manufacturing for a bakery expansion, or turnkey EPMC™️ services to take a new processing plant from groundbreaking to startup, Gray devotes the talent and resources to turn your vision into reality.
Fully Leveraging Industry Transformation
The food & beverage industry has never been more exciting—or more challenging. As a fully integrated family of brands with specialized capabilities, Gray is positioned to meet today’s challenges and tomorrow’s uncertainty with confidence. Our record of innovation is why our customers trust us to implement the industry’s most advanced solutions:
- Use of virtual reality (VR) throughout design and construction
- Design-build of custom batching and sanitary process equipment
- Installation of the world’s longest, fastest Snap Chill freezer
- Design and construction of the Western Hemisphere’s only air-chill turkey processing model
- Incorporation of building information modeling (BIM) for structural and utility layouts
- Extensive equipment manufacturing capabilities, including welding, machining, sheet & plate fabrication, and water & laser cutting
- Commissioning of a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for process lines
Service That Spans the Industry.
From process and packaging to food safety, automation, and more, our solutions help customers increase production, solve for labor shortages, mitigate costs, and ensure FSMA compliance. Whether you need a turnkey facility solution or a single piece of custom equipment, we can design, build, engineer, and automate your way to a future-proof business.
We’ve delivered projects for a wide range of industry sectors, including:
– Bakery
– Beverage
– Condiment & Sauce
– Confectionery
– Frozen
– Prepared
– Pet
– Protein
– Snack & Cereal
– Spirits
– Bourbon
Our Featured Projects
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Hill's Pet Nutrition
Integrated Services for Highly Automated Pet Food Facility. -
Kraft Heinz
Award-Winning Opportunity. -
Prestage Farms
Turnkey Project Services Enable Greater Production Capacity and Efficiency. -
Clemens Food Group—Hatfield, PA
Award-Winning Expansion to Increase Food Supply.
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