Heightened concern about food safety, rapid shifts in customer preferences, increasing utility costs, and the ongoing environmental impacts of plant operations and disposal practices have created new challenges for today's food and beverage manufacturers. The industry has responded with ways to reduce waste, minimize energy and water usage, maximize operational efficiency, and implement long-term environmental management strategies.
CDM offers evaluation, design, and implementation services for facilities to achieve these goals and maintain a competitive edge. Services include process and facility engineering and construction for new facilities, upgrades, process line relocations, automation, and equipment installations. We also offer study, design, and construction services in support of water system development, treatment and reuse systems; waste minimization; wastewater and stormwater collection and treatment; water, wastewater, and air permitting; sludge management and beneficial reuse; solid waste management; and general infrastructure improvements. We have provided services to food and beverage manufacturers in the dairy product, frozen food, baked goods, snack food, soft drink, alcoholic beverage, meat, fish processing, canning, and numerous other food and beverage markets. And our design-build capabilities provide clients with a single source of responsibility from the initial planning and permitting stages through construction, startup, and operational support.