The Mid-Atlantic region is the perfect location for a Food Processing Facility. New and expanding businesses thrive here because of its strategic advantages, including labor pool, available land, driving access to the market (reach), and ease of setup and operation. In the Mid-Atlantic, public administrations are cutting red tape and fostering a healthy collaboration with owners and developers, creating an abundance of jobs in the process.   There’s a reason great companies like The Hershey Company, Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe, Inc., Hatfield Products, Hanover Foods, Utz Quality Foods, and The H.J. Heinz Co. to name a few have thrived here for generations.

Creating a safe and profitable space for the mass-production of food is critical.   Each individual brand must put a premium on protecting the quality and safety of their product while meeting demand.

Precast concrete is a natural fit for facilities like these. Custom-engineered components for floors, walls, stairs, columns, beams, and roofs are combined to provide a long-lasting structure that maximizes the controlled space within and carries the load for necessaries like machines, conveyor belts, forklifts, and people.   In addition to their inherent sustainability, precast structures can feature an interior finish that meets food-grade standards as well: smooth, clean, and impenetrable.   There is also a variety of finishes and colors for an attractive façade.   The structure can blend with its surroundings or be as beautiful as desired!

Custom Precast Concrete Options

With precast concrete, the client can be creative by balancing aesthetics with value.   Shapes, sizes and thicknesses can be customized, while Value Engineering can be achieved by utilizing modular, standard, precast products.   Exterior finishes can use any combination of exposed aggregates, a smooth substrate to receive paint, cast-in thin brick, or abrasive blast.   A pleasing aesthetic can be achieved while still maintaining precast concrete’s intrinsic benefits: durability, strength, sound attenuation, and energy efficiency.

Precast Concrete Design

One key to success in maximizing the value of a food processing facility is mastering the design.   Nitterhouse Concrete Products employs experienced engineers who are available to provide design-assist to help bring a visualized concept to reality.   The unique technical demands of modern equipment and processes require that a developer find a precast trade partner like Nitterhouse who can propose workable designs and solutions given a dynamic recipe of factors including specifications, space, budget, and time.

As the job comes to life, Nitterhouse will cooperatively work with the General Contractor to meet the schedule.   As a contributing member of the design team, we will submit P.E. sealed calculations and erection drawings to the architect and engineer of record for review and approval.

Quality Control

A PCI-certified manufacturer, Nitterhouse Concrete Products is held to the highest standards of quality control during production.   Every component is tested for strength and tolerance and stored in accordance with PCI’s strict guidelines.

Delivery & Installation Options

In addition to supplying and safely delivering, Nitterhouse includes erection of these facilities as well, providing a carefully installed, satisfying, turnkey product.   Partnering with PCI-certified erectors who know our product, our clients have a peace of mind that the sequence, direction, crane operation, rigging, leveling, bracing, grouting, and welding are achieved.

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Nitterhouse Concrete Products, Inc. (NCP) in Chambersburg, PA, has been family-owned and operated for five generations, serving the construction industry since 1923.   Give us a call at 717-267-4505 or visit our website at www.nitterhouseconcrete.com for information on more quality precast, prestressed products to meet your design and construction needs.   Choose with confidence and make NCP your single source for precast – what you need when you need it.   Our experienced team of professionals is ready to help!

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