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Cobia Construction & Design
Your Trusted Turnkey Partner for Food Manufacturers/Process
Cobia Construction & Design provides certified, end-to-end solutions for food manufacturing facilities. From building your plant to installing production lines, storage systems, and refrigeration, we ensure every component meets the highest safety and efficiency standards.
What Sets Us Apart
Cobia Construction & Design stands out because we don’t just build facilities we engineer environments that enhance production efficiency and uphold the strictest food safety requirements. We provide full-scope construction services, from ground-up builds to remodels and large-scale expansions, ensuring your facility evolves with your operational needs. Our capabilities are not limited by scope; whether you’re updating an existing plant or constructing a new one, our team delivers.
Our qualifications speak for themselves: we are SQF certified, FDA certified, USDA certified, and HACCP certified. With our team, you can trust that your project will be executed by professionals who understand compliance, operational flow, and the precise demands of modern food manufacturing. When you choose us, you’re selecting a partner committed to providing the highest level of quality, reliability, and long-term performance.
With over 40 years of experience in the food manufacturing industry, our team brings expertise from every level, ranging from “School of Hard Knocks” graduates to accredited university professionals. Our backgrounds span millwrights, mechanics, chemists, engineers, architects, and seasoned field technicians. This depth and diversity enable us to solve problems from every angle and provide true, experience-driven collaboration.
Construction & Facility Design
Construction
At Cobia Construction & Design, we don’t just design facilities we build them. Our team provides full-service construction capabilities across every scope of work required for a modern food manufacturing environment. From refrigeration systems, walls, ceilings, and structural infrastructure to air compressors, wastewater treatment, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, climate control, dust and fume extraction, flooring, and racking, we handle every component your facility needs. Whether it’s ground-up construction, remodels, or major expansions, we are not limited by scope. We deliver fully integrated, turnkey solutions that ensure your operation is efficient, compliant, and built for long-term performance.
Refrigeration
Refrigeration is one of the most critical components of effective facility design and process optimization in any food manufacturing environment. Proper temperature control directly impacts product quality, operational efficiency, and most importantly food safety. At Cobia Construction & Design, we integrate advanced refrigeration systems into the core of our facility planning to ensure consistent temperature management throughout every stage of production. By engineering refrigeration solutions that align with workflow, compliance standards, and your specific product requirements, we help safeguard food integrity while enhancing overall process performance.
Facility Design
Starting with the right design helps ensure food safety. A good plan helps you
- Prevent Pests
- Ensure Proper Sanitation
- Promote Good Hygiene
- Maintain
Food safety once focused on pest control. It now focuses on pest prevention. Keeping pests out is easier than getting rid of them. No facility can be totally pest-proof. However, we can use best practices to make design better buildings. The right design can make you pest resistant. The fewer pests that get in, the easier they are to control.
Is your facility easy to clean? Choosing the right surfaces can make a big difference. During design, we focus on sanitizing. Once complete, your facility will be easy to clean. The design depends on whether you will use cleaned-in-place (CIP) or cleaned-out-of-place (COP) systems. The easier it is to clean, the easier it is to pass inspections and audits.
Want to promote hygiene? Hygiene is key to preventing cross-contamination. Easy-to-access restrooms and handwashing stations can help. Keeping break areas away from food production areas reduces risk. We help you plan a layout that makes sense and promotes hygiene.
Finally, all buildings need maintenance. We design for the future, keeping maintenance needs in mind. You should be able to maintain your facility without shutting it down.
Continuous Improvement
The value stream is from your perspective. What are the costs at every stage, from acquiring raw materials to selling to the customer?
Flow refers to how all of your processes work together. Do you have barriers to flow? If so, we work to remove them to minimize production delays.
Our final goal is perfection. Because perfection is usually unattainable, that means a commitment to continuous improvement. We can help you implement a culture focused on continuous improvement, where analyzing metrics and quality are all part of your daily business strategy.
SQF
SQF is a GFSI benchmarked food safety standard. It uses Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) to guide its standards.
How you implement SQF depends on several factors. They Include
- Type of Food
- Size of the Company
- Production Facility
Recent changes to SQF have focused on audits. They got rid of the initial desk audit. Instead, audits are now on-site. They also allow remote audits. Understanding the audit process can show you where to focus.