JR Merit has worked with this snack food manufacturer for 15 years, supporting more than 1,300 projects totaling more than $30M that serve production for a variety of product types, from crackers and cookies to chocolate to gum and candy. Many of our projects have been fast-track operational expansions or emergency response to inoperable production equipment.
This client relies on JR Merit because of our team members’ unwavering commitment to following food safety requirements and procedures. A client project manager recently said, “With JR Merit, it’s a given that they know what to do and how to do it, and they never break the rules. These intangibles, along with scope, schedule, and cost, help me do my job and focus on the technical issues; it gives me peace of mind.”
Chocolate Cookie Grind – For this project, we removed the existing cracker line equipment, refurbished an old wood floor with concrete and epoxy lining, and installed new equipment to grind chocolate cookies and a new product line to package them.
Dust Mitigation – We installed temporary tenting with negative air to enable continued plant operations during construction. We installed a new dust collection system to mitigate hazardous flour and sugar dust within the plant, including bins, collectors, and associated piping.