New Plant Builds and Plant Expansions

Effective Foreign Contamination Control Starts with the Right Equipment Placement

Why involve us early

Adding a magnet or inspection system after a plant is built means cutting into lines, redesigning transitions and working around equipment that is already in place. Planning it during design is simpler, cheaper and gives you better protection from day one. Even if your team already knows where the control points are, a second review from a specialist that only works in food foreign material control can catch gaps before they are poured in concrete.

Our team can assist with determining magnet selection compatible with your HACCP Plan, from product intakes and processing, to finished goods.

What we do on a project

1. Process line review: we walk your process flow drawings and P&IDs from raw material intake to final pack.
2. Contamination risk mapping: we identify where foreign material can enter or be generated, including ingredient receiving, grinding, conveying, mixing and packaging.
3. Equipment placement: we recommend the right technology at each control point: magnetic separation, metal detection, X-ray, checkweighing, or optical sorting.
4. Specification support: equipment sizing, sanitary design and connection details your engineers and OEMs can build to.
5. Commissioning and validation: we verify the installed systems perform as intended and provide documentation for your food safety program.

Who we work with

• Food, beverage, dairy and pet food manufacturers planning new facilities
• Meat renderers
• Grain, seeds and milling processors
• Pharmaceutical and cosmetics manufacturers
• Other non-food industries, including plastic manufacturers and chemical processors
• Design-build, engineering and EPC firms managing greenfield and turnkey projects
• Equipment OEMs and integrators building complete process lines
• Plants adding a new line or expanding capacity

Example: A new pet food plant

A pet food manufacturer building a plant from the ground up needs protection at ingredient receiving, before and after grinding, through extrusion and coating, and at final packing.
Magnattack reviews the layout, recommends strategically placed magnets where metal fragments are likely to be present, as well as at final outloading prior to packaging.
Magnattack will also consider metal detection or X-ray equipment at final locations that is aligned to your HACCP plan, giving the project team one coordinated approach instead of separate quotes from separate suppliers.

Starting a project? Talk to our team at the design stage – share your project details in the form to get started.