Helping food and drink manufacturers adapt in changing times

Helping food and drink manufacturers adapt in changing times

Rising energy prices, increased fuel costs and supply chain challenges for ingredients are all creating challenges for the food and beverage manufacturing industry in Europe.

Meanwhile the influence of key trends, such as plant-based foods, clean eating, and flavour and format brand extensions are also prompting manufacturers to adapt and invest to compete.

At AIS Eurelo, we work closely with food and drink manufacturers of all sizes all over Europe to help them remain agile in a changing market and respond as quickly as possible to evolving commercial, operational, and legislative requirements. Operating across borders and capable of providing a consistent service at multiple sites for pan-European food and drink manufacturing businesses, our branch network in Europe enables us to provide the support the food and drink industry in Europe needs to decommission, reconfigure, establish new factories or install new equipment and production lines.

Adapting and removing production lines in the food and drink manufacturing sector.

Responding to a changing market in the food and drink manufacturing sector often means adapting existing processes to enable new formulations, formats or flavours to be produced on an existing production line or within an existing factory.

Our expert teams can advise you on the best approach to minimise cost and disruption to your operations; whether you are making minor changes to the equipment on your production line or removing machinery to replace it with new assets.

We are often called upon to transport machinery from country to country for food and drink sector manufacturers who are moving production of an existing product to another site in a different country. Often they are doing this in order to install production facilities for a new product in their primary manufacturing location.

In this scenario, we can offer an end-to-end solution, which includes decommissioning, dismantling and removal of the production line at the first site, loading to transport and transportation to the second site, followed by offloading and installation, with full industrial mechanical and electrical services support. Thanks to our international capabilities and Europe-wide branch network, we can simultaneously manage the offloading, installation and commissioning of the replacement line in the primary manufacturing location, helping the client optimise manufacturing output and reduce downtime.

Aiding resilience strategies in the food and drink manufacturing sector.

While demand for food and drink remains high regardless of economic factors, because food and drink is vital for life, non-commodity items may be less buoyant than store cupboard staples.  The cost of energy, fuel, ingredients and labour can often be a catalyst for strategic change.

Our experience of working in the food and drink manufacturing sector indicates that commercial and operational factors often lead food and drink manufacturers to move some or all of their production to a location where overheads are less expensive. From our branches in Poland and the Czech Republic, we have an excellent reach across Eastern Europe – a region that has benefitted from this strategic approach – and our teams can co-ordinate across sites to move, lift and install equipment, either as part of a factory set-up or to expand an existing site.

Supporting food and drink manufacturers across Europe.

Whether it’s a single site artisan producer, or a multi-national household brand, at AIS Eurelo, we have the resources and expertise to support both expansion and resilience strategies anywhere in Europe and beyond. From installing a single machine, to setting-up an entire factory, we are the industrial services experts that food and drink manufacturers trust, no matter how tastes changes or what challenges the market faces.