Pet Food Processing Equipment

The client operates in food processing - specifically freeze drying - and came to Everything Metal to replicate an existing piece of their processing equipment. Our in-house drafting team produced full workshop drawings from the customer's existing product, working to their exact specifications so the replicated units matched the original in form, fit, and function. Multiple units to be supplied off the same drawings.

Freeze drying food sets the hygiene and cleanliness specifications for everything that touches the product. Surfaces, welds, and internal pathways all had to be fabricated to the standards food processing environments require - clean, contamination-free, and built to suit ongoing wash-down and food-grade service.

The job started in drafting. Our in-house team worked from the customer's existing product to produce workshop drawings that reproduced the unit to specification, ready to take straight to the floor. Drafting and fabrication under one roof meant the drawings were built around how the units would actually be made - no translation losses between a third-party draftsperson and the workshop.

From there, fabrication ran to the hygiene standards the freeze drying application required. The dedicated contamination-free stainless facility, ASSDA-accredited processes, and pulse MIG and pulse TIG welding all sat behind the build - the same standards we apply to commercial kitchen and food processing work generally.

Quality control was where this job demanded more than a standard production run. The units run glycol through internal pathways, so extra Q&A testing was built into the program to confirm the glycol flowed through each unit seamlessly and without leaks. Every unit had to pass that test before it left the workshop - a leak in service isn't recoverable on equipment of this kind.

The project also ran as a proof of concept. The client was preparing to take their work and machinery to international expansion, so the units we supplied weren't just equipment for current operations - they were the reference build against which scaled production would be measured. That set the standard for the job: every unit to spec, every unit tested, every unit ready to serve as the benchmark for what comes next.