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Biotechnology
Seamlessly adopt new processes and produce therapeutics faster.
Stay ahead of the rapidly evolving biotechnology industry with a flexible facility and expertly designed process systems. Readily adapt to new advances while producing the best quality drug products quickly and cost-effectively.
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Food + Beverage
Safe, high-quality, value-driven food + beverage facilities fuel your growth and success.
Scale up a small process or expand and improve a large-scale operation. No matter your size or goals, you need an adaptable facility that quickly responds to consumers’ constantly changing tastes and meets increasingly strict regulatory standards.
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Pharmaceuticals
Don’t trade off between product quality and production efficiency.
You can have a more efficient, more sustainable, lower-cost facility that produces the best quality pharmaceutical products for patients. Get a customized, best-in-class solution from experts who possess extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of pharma manufacturing.
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Science + Technology
Enable collaboration, attract the brightest minds and advance science + technology.
As you drive discovery in a rapidly changing world, you need research facilities that can keep up. Innovative laboratory design appeals to the people using the space, optimizing throughput, accelerating breakthroughs and capitalizing on creativity. It can also improve your bottom line by boosting productivity, maximizing flexibility and reducing energy costs.
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Cell + Gene Therapy
Biotechnology
Next-generation therapies now.
Achieve a facility that is flexible enough to continuously adopt technology which doesn’t yet exist, resilient enough to support rapid scale-up to commercialization, and advanced enough to keep you at the front of the race toward breakthrough autologous and allogeneic cell and gene therapies.
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Monoclonal Antibodies + Therapeutic Proteins
Biotechnology
Manage a flexible, scalable product portfolio. Prepare for commercial success.
With competitors at your heels, speed-to-market pressure has never been higher for your mAbs or therapeutic proteins product. You need a flexible manufacturing asset that can quickly pivot within an uncertain product pipeline and unknown timeline.
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RNA Therapies
Biopharma
Flexible RNA therapy facilities for a rapidly advancing sector.
Lead the way for this revolutionary technology with design and construction solutions that right-size your process, help you navigate a complex regulatory environment, and create a flexible facility that can adapt with the industry and your organization.
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Vaccines
Biotechnology
Save lives. Manufacture effective vaccines quickly.
Whether you need one compliant process that maximizes throughput or a configurable facility that can accommodate multiple operating scenarios, get a solution that checks all the boxes.
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Alternative Proteins
Food + Beverage
Grow your process, grow your facility, get ahead.
As the market for plant-based foods and alternative proteins rapidly expands, so should your operations. Scale-up can be an exciting and challenging time for any food producer, but especially for your company, pioneering new technologies and products. You need the support of designers and constructors that understand the unique ins and outs of alternative protein production. Our team can help you grow into a new space, a new product and a new market.
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Baking + Snack
Food + Beverage
Save money and ingredients.
With tight margins, every resource is invaluable. Use data to maximize your ingredients, your process and your facility. Whether you’re building new or renovating an existing facility our team strives to find opportunities you didn’t even know existed.
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Beverage
Food + Beverage
Every step in the supply chain designed and built for optimal product quality.
From ingredient intake and essence recovery to packaging and warehousing, streamline every aspect of your beverage manufacturing process. Clean design solutions and a flexible facility accommodate your evolving needs to meet changing demands.
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Confectionery
Food + Beverage
Controlled environments designed and built to produce high-quality confections.
Your confectionery process relies on the right conditions. You need assurance that your facility and process integrate optimally with MEP to control temperature, humidity and more. Design, build and optimize your confectionery manufacturing facility with a multidisciplinary team that collaborates on every aspect of your project.
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Control Systems Integration
Food + Beverage
Achieve operational readiness with fully integrated control systems.
Control systems integration can help ensure you’re making optimal equipment and systems selections, addressing gaps before they happen and circumventing long lead times or supply issues. Working with CSI experts who understand the food and beverage industry and are plugged into your projects’ design and construction teams from the start sets up your facility for operational readiness on time.
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Dairy
Food + Beverage
Dairy products for every demand.
From fortified products to shelf-stable applications, consumers’ wants are changing in the dairy industry. No matter the form, you need to safely produce these goods in a clean and efficient environment. You need end-to-end expertise in processing, cleaning, refrigeration, packaging and more to design, construct and optimize your facility.
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Dressings + Sauces
Food + Beverage
Keep your process clean; keep it moving.
Product left behind in your equipment is not just cutting into profits; it’s a food safety concern. Alternatively, the right process design and sanitation program will ensure your dressing and sauces are produced safely and efficiently. Employ cutting-edge techniques for hygienic design to achieve “clean label” designations and build flexibility into your lines to produce a multitude of products quickly with high quality.
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Food Safety
Food + Beverage
Clean and compliant facility, safe food.
Satisfying your customers and meeting ever-increasing regulatory standards are both a matter of the safety and quality of your food products. Any facility can benefit from food safety consulting to enhance your product, streamline your process and improve conditions for your personnel.
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Ingredients
Food + Beverage
Satisfy end-users with quality, compliant ingredients.
From basic safety standards to elevated clean label requirements, the bar for ingredients is set higher than ever. Your process and facility design needs to be adaptable to meet the moving target of your industry. You need experts in the ingredients market, not just design and construction. You’ll get a solution designed with a deep understanding of not just your needs, but those of your end-users too.
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Nutrition
Food + Beverage
Optimal and flexible nutritional product manufacturing.
Nutrition products take many forms; your facility needs flexibility whether you produce one type or more. Driven by consumer demand, imagine your production adapting quickly and efficiently to changing wants. It’s possible to have quick line changeovers and versatile packaging operations while also meeting the most stringent food safety regulations. We’ll help you create the facility that works optimally for you now—and in the future.
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Packaging
Food + Beverage
Packaging is integral to your bottom line. Packaging engineering helps you get it right.
Your business relies on packaging that protects products and catches consumers’ attention, enabled by a packaging process that runs optimally and consistently. Packaging engineering can unlock business advantages and increase efficiency, cutting straight to your bottom line. CRB’s packaging experts provide packaging production lin equipment design, packaging material design, staff augmentation and consulting to optimize your production, bring your ideas to life, and partner for your success.
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Pet Food
Food + Beverage
Get products to market faster than consumer tastes change.
With trends in pet food changing quickly, speed to market is paramount. This is made more difficult by the breadth of technology and complex regulations now involved in pet food production. Make your pet food facility flexible, efficient and clean with help from experts in a variety of food processing technologies.
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Ready-to-Eat
Food + Beverage
Clean, safe facilities, ready to deliver.
Food safety and quality are paramount in the ready-to-eat market. It requires highly sanitary design and construction, and attention to every facility from air flows to personnel flows. Get the best solution for your unique project, and consistent product quality you and your consumers can trust.
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Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Pharmaceuticals
Make APIs faster, cheaper and with less waste.
It’s not enough to build a functional bulk pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility; you must meet increasingly more rigorous safety and quality standards, while producing APIs quickly and efficiently. Get a solution for your new or existing facility to achieve your business aims, and most importantly, find opportunities to improve upon your process.
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Animal Health
Pharmaceuticals
Reduce your animal health project timeline and lower capital costs with lead design and construction execution.

Aseptic + Sterile Products
Pharmaceuticals
Mitigate the risks of your most complex aseptic processes.
Every component matters in aseptic processing—especially the people designing and building your facility. The safety and efficacy of your product rely on the coordination and interaction of personnel, equipment, facility and the product. Cleanliness and contamination control must be engineered and built in.
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Plasma-Derived Therapies
Pharmaceuticals
Plasma-derived therapies are more critical than ever.
Ramping up production to meet increasing demand is a monumental task due to the unique challenges of plasma-derived medicinal product production. The complex, time-consuming, and expensive manufacturing process makes the proper design of your plasma fractionation and purification facility more important than ever. The right facility design paves the way to lower operating costs and higher product yields, allowing you to maximize the return on every liter of plasma processed.
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Oligonucleotides
Pharmaceuticals
Revolutionize oligonucleotide manufacturing for life-changing therapies.
As more drugs achieve FDA approval and demand increases, position yourself for rapid expansion. Successfully make the transition to commercial scale.
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Oral Solid Dosage
Pharmaceuticals
Patients are relying on your OSD drug product.
Because a well-designed process is central to your success, the right process solution is also unique to you. Whether you’re ready to enter the continuous manufacturing arena or you’re looking to achieve a wider range of capabilities with a more robust CM system, implement the process that’s best for your business.
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Lab Planning + Design
Science + Technology
Creative, unique, flexible, adaptive labs planned to stand the test of time.
It takes true understanding of the work you do and the way you do it, accounting for your goals and your challenges. You need a dedicated design team to create the optimal lab.
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