Agri-food

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Diagram illustrating the various sectors of the food industry served by Ekium. A bird’s-eye view of an industrial park comprising 10 production sites interconnected by roads, with delivery lorries travelling between the facilities: - Fish and seafood - Meat and poultry - Beverages - Animal feed - Fruit and vegetables - Bakery, Pastry, Pasta - Miscellaneous (Tea, chocolate, etc.) - Grains - Oil and fat - Processed dairy products The complex represents a complete industrial ecosystem with logistics traffic, green spaces and road infrastructure connecting all sites.

Ekium designs, manages, automates, and oversees the implementation of your projects across all sectors of the food industry. Our services encompass needs analysis, facility design (process and/or building), equipment selection, as well as the organization and monitoring of construction work through to commissioning.

In addition to meeting functional and regulatory requirements, our expertise is a valuable asset in meeting your project requirements in terms of performance, cost, and timeline.

Our expertise

We support you from the initial needs assessment through to the commissioning of your facilities, whether for new sites or for expansions and/or modifications to existing facilities.

We work across the entire value chain of your production units: from the arrival of raw materials and packaging materials, through their storage, handling/transfer, and processing, to the storage and shipment of finished products. We handle all aspects of the project: process, utilities, building, and exterior landscaping.

EKIUM
Ekium supports manufacturers with a complete offer: construction of customized industrial buildings, automation and supervision of production lines, technical consulting, energy optimization and innovative solutions to meet the challenges of productivity, traceability and sustainability.
Paul GILLAIN
Technical Manager Ekium Belgium

Your challenges

  • Sanitary

    Manufacturers have to comply with increasingly strict health regulations, requiring compliant installations, total traceability and continuous monitoring.

  • Technology and Innovation

    The food industry is being transformed by digitalization and automation: sensors and big data to optimize yields, blockchain for transparent traceability, and automated production lines to boost productivity.

  • Environmental

    Faced with climate change and dwindling water resources, the agri-food industry must adopt sustainable practices: agro-ecology, carbon footprint reduction, energy efficiency and optimized water management.

  • Financial

    Food manufacturers need to modernize their infrastructures to meet sustainability requirements, while mobilizing green financing to encourage low-carbon investments.

BLÉDINA

General contracting for the building and utilities work packages for the installation of a milk filtration unit

COSUCRA

Design study / Basic Design for the construction and fitting out of a new building to house its quality control activities

ACTIMEAT

All trades project management for the extension of a site to increase production, storage and building capacities

AOSTE

Project management and coordination with various stakeholders (plants, supply, R&D, marketing, etc.) for the industrial transfer of products between two production sites, including the installation of new equipment.

TEREOS

Preliminary design studies (summary design / final design) and project management for the replacement of a washhouse to meet the need for increased capacity

CRISTAL UNION

We designed and built a high-performance gas-fired power plant, reinforcing the sugar plant's energy autonomy and optimizing the recovery of process steam. The mission covered detailed engineering, equipment integration (gas boilers, steam turbine, generator) and complete project management through to commissioning.

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EKIUM
Ekium consolidates its long-standing relationship with the BEL Group and signs the renewal of the existing framework agreement for the next 2 years. Having successfully completed numerous projects in France and abroad, this new step confirms our mutual trust and commitment to a long-term relationship. The agreement covers technical studies, fixed-price engineering, technical assistance and automation.
Dominique RUELLE
Branch Manager Centre-Val de Loire

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