Practice · Food + beverage
Product-grade utility problems, solved line by line.
Beverage and food sites live or die by the utilities behind the line. ASE holds water, CIP, effluent, and automation as one operating problem — sized against the product brief, documented for the auditor, and handed over to the operator with the records they actually need.
- Practice founded
- 2003
- Hygiene standard
- HACCP
- Vendor posture
- Independent
- Operating offices
- 6
Representative delivery posture. Scope and retained coverage are set per mandate in the written brief.
Delivered against
- HACCP
- FSMA
- EU 852/2004
- ISO 22000
- EHEDG
Capabilities
Six beverage programmes under one partner.
Each programme is written to the production line it serves — not lifted from a brochure. Utilities are sized to the actual draw, the actual CIP cycle, the actual discharge licence.
01
Process + ingredient water
Treatment trains matched to the product brief — soft drinks, beer, dairy, spirits, bottled water — with hygienic-design distribution loops.
02
CIP + SIP systems
Clean-in-place and steam-in-place engineered against the line cycle. Measured coverage, verified chemistry, auditable cycle records.
03
Utilities + energy
Boiler, chiller, refrigeration, and compressed-air plant sized to the production profile — with metered accountability per line.
04
Effluent + reuse
Wastewater treatment designed to the discharge standard the site actually has to meet, with reuse loops where the payback supports it.
05
Automation + traceability
SCADA, batch reporting, and electronic batch records that satisfy internal QA and external audit on the same data set.
06
Food-safety engineering
Hygienic design, material selection, and drainage engineered to FSMA, HACCP, and EU hygiene-package expectations.
The utility plant decides whether the line runs. We size it against the product, not the vendor’s preferred package.
Evidence
Built for the line that has to run tomorrow.
Four declarations drawn from the firm’s own record. Stated in writing before any equipment is specified.
Record of practice
i — iv · as at 2026
- IDesign
Line-grade
Treatment trains written to the product brief, not the brochure
- IISafety
HACCP
Hygienic-design and material selection to food-safety expectations
- IIIFootprint
6 offices
Vienna · Lisbon · Bucharest · Lagos · Abuja · Accra
- IVStanding
Independent
No equipment-vendor rebates or resale margin on specified kit
Signed by the senior engineer of record at the close of every engagement. Kept on file, reissued on request.
Asset class
The beverage work we commission.
Representative images of the lines, utility plants, and integration work ASE specifies and commissions — the asset class, not specific client sites.
Line
Production-line integration.
Utility take-offs, CIP sequences, and controls tied into the line that will actually draw them — not a generic layout.
Filling
Hygienic filling.
Filling-room water, air, and cleaning utilities engineered to the product contact surfaces they have to serve.
Utilities
Utility plant sizing.
Boiler, chiller, and compressed-air plant sized against the production profile — not the vendor’s preferred package.
Process
Process + thermal.
Pasteurisation, mixing, and thermal-treatment utilities documented against the product brief and the audit trail.
Delivery
Survey. Design. Build. Steward.
Four stages, one accountable partner. No handoff between sales, engineering, and service.
Engagement cadence
i — iv · single partner
- IListen
Survey
Line audit, CIP cycle review, and utility metering. A written baseline of what the line draws and produces before any scope is written.
1 – 2 weeks
- IIWrite
Design
P&IDs, equipment selection, and CIP/effluent strategy issued as a stamped package. Independent of any single equipment vendor.
2 – 5 weeks
- IIIDeliver
Build + commission
Installation, FAT, SAT, sanitisation, and documented handover under the name of the partner who signed the scope.
8 – 20 weeks
- IVHold
Stewardship
Quarterly reviews, planned replacements, and a retained line back to the engineers who built the system.
Retained
One partner signs across all four stages. No subcontracted handovers.
More on beverage and food-manufacturing utilities in the ASE journal.
Next step
A partner-level line review.
Thirty minutes with a senior partner from the beverage practice. You leave with a written summary, a realistic view of the work, and a direct line back to the partner.