Beerenberg Farm Stage 2 – New Food Production and Processing Facility

Such was the success of our first stage warehouse and office development, Beerenberg Family Farm at Hahndorf engaged us to help them deliver a new state of the art food production and processing facility as well as a new product development area to support their rapid growth.

This second stage project commenced at the end of 2016 with a collaborative team approach including the Beerenberg production team, a process engineering consultant and Swanbury Penglase, all with the primary aim of delivering a suitable food production shell that facilitated the integration of highly technical food production equipment, bottling and packaging lines. Early in the design development, the process engineer established the importance of high quality control and speed of food production to make the most of the bottling and packing line equipment and ensure that it was being utilised to its full potential.

The end result is that Beerenberg now has a facility that has doubled its production capacity, keeping up with significantly increased sales in recent years.

Interestingly the facility can now produce 60,000 bottles of condiment in one shift and one of Beerenberg’s new production lines can now fill and label 120 retail jars every minute.

A third stage which mainly consisted of the actual production equipment installation and integration ran parallel with stage 2 to ensure a seamless coordination. This highly collaborative process between the consultants for both second and third stages, along with the approach taken by the Beerenberg team was even greater then what we traditionally experience but given the nature of the technical equipment, food hygiene and services requirements we believe this was critical to the success of the project.