The product sets the process. The process shapes the plant.
LAPORTE engineers pharmaceutical, agrifood, industrial biotech, and other industrial plants. Process requirements guide the equipment, utilities, controls, power, and facility work.
Engineering begins with what the plant makes and handles.
Aseptic production, thermal food processing, fermentation, dry material handling, and industrial manufacturing place different demands on rooms, equipment, utilities, controls, safety, and qualification.
Pharmaceutical
Process and facility work for pharmaceutical production ties formulation, processing, cleaning, utilities, controlled spaces, automation, and qualification to the manufacturing method.
Liquid and semisolid formulation, solid processing, aseptic processing, cytotoxic handling, lyophilization, chromatography, filtration, CIP, sterilization, and cell culture.
Agrifood & Food and Beverage
Food and beverage plants connect ingredient handling, processing, cleaning, refrigeration, filling, packaging, utilities, and production controls around product flow.
Dry-ingredient handling, mixing, fermentation, pasteurization, brewing, filtration, centrifugation, extrusion, drying, cooking, evaporation, refrigeration, CIP, and sterilization.
Food & Beverage Plant
Ingredient handling, mixing, thermal processing, brewing, filtration, refrigeration, CIP, filling, and packaging systems.
Dairy Processing
Pasteurization, filtration, centrifugation, refrigeration, cleaning systems, utilities, controls, and filling for dairy plants.
Pet Food Plant
Process and facility engineering for pet food plants, coordinating product movement, utilities, controls, power, filling, and packaging.
Sauce & Condiment Processing
Mixing, cooking, pasteurization, filling, packaging, cleaning, utilities, and controls for sauces and other liquid foods.
Sugar & Sweetener Processing
Dry material handling, evaporation, drying, utility systems, controls, power, and product movement for sweetener plants.
Grain Milling & Oilseed
Grain and dry-ingredient handling, milling, extrusion, drying, dust work, utilities, controls, and electrical systems.
Alternative Protein Facility
Mixing, fermentation, extrusion, drying, separation, utilities, controls, and facility systems for alternative protein production.
Industrial Biotech
Industrial biotech work moves from scale-up and media preparation into fermentation, recovery, concentration, and finishing operations.
Sterile and non-sterile fermentation, batch and continuous fermentation, separation, membrane work, cell disruption, concentration, crystallization, and drying.
Industrial Plants
Industrial plant work coordinates process equipment, material movement, automation, networks, power, safety, utilities, and building systems.
Hazardous-area installations, industrial risk work, machine safety, robotics, vision, industrial networks, filling, packaging, and equipment integration.
Chemical & Coatings
Process equipment, industrial controls, hazardous-area classification, safety work, utilities, and power for chemical and coatings plants.
Advanced Manufacturing
Equipment integration, robotics, vision, industrial networks, motor control, filling, packaging, power, and building systems.
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