News

Apr 2, 2020

Vaccines and therapies can’t come soon enough for a world desperate to limit or erase the threat of COVID-19. But there’s good news from an industry long accustomed to a speed-to-market mentality: Pharmaceutical companies are fully engaged.

Mar 27, 2020

Mike Barrett, Biotech Business Unit Leader at CRB’s Raleigh, NC office, was recently featured in an article in Pharma’s Almanac entitled,  “Integrated Design and Engineering: Focused on the End Goal.”

Mar 24, 2020

Phil Lyman shows how simulations can navigate tricky path from research to commercial production

Mar 4, 2020

Steve Pflantz, PE offers backup strategies and considerations in Food Engineering’s “How to ensure your automation system can be recovered.”

Feb 17, 2020

Bill Jarvis featured in Pharmaceutical Technology’s “Designing Commercial-Scale Oligonucleotide Synthesis.”

Feb 5, 2020

Steve Pflantz is featured in Food Engineering’s “Employing wireless sensors without a clear goal could prove inefficient.”

Feb 4, 2020

CRB is pleased to announce that Carmine Stropoli has joined the organization as Life Sciences Technologist.

Jan 21, 2020

We are pleased to announce that Rasmus Kidmose has joined CRB as our European Business Development Director.

Jan 21, 2020

Ben Rucker is featured in Pet Food Processing’s “3 key considerations for producing raw, minimally cooked pet products.”

Jan 15, 2020

CRB is pleased to announce Eric Danielson has joined the company as Director of Business Development.

Jan 14, 2020

Iain Siery, Senior Mechanical Engineer, shares his thoughts on research facility design in CSE Magazine.

Dec 31, 2019

Jeff Matis, PE is featured in Food Engineering’s “Tomorrow’s pet food plant: What it takes to stay competitive.”

Dec 17, 2019

Jeff Matis, PE is featured in Food Engineering’s “Expectations for conveniently packaged specialty pet food create challenges.”

Dec 6, 2019

Niranjan Kulkarni, Ph.D. is featured in Pet Food Processing’s “Modern tech, innovative approaches for optimizing process efficiencies.”

Dec 5, 2019

Mark Paskanik shares insights into the top reasons to use automation and robotics in the lab.

Nov 26, 2019

Kevin Garden, project specialist, is featured in Lab Manager Magazine’s “Designing the Sustainable Lab.”

Nov 22, 2019

CRB is often called upon by our clients to uncover energy savings. In the November issue of Food Engineering, Jeremy Gualdoni explains an energy recovery strategy used for a confectionery client in “Solving the Energy Equation.”

Nov 20, 2019

Renee Benson discusses the push for versatility and flexibility in packaging processes in Pet Food Processing.

Nov 19, 2019

Peter Walters’ “The Pain-Free Guide: Transitioning from Clinical Production to Commercial Manufacturing” was featured in Contract Pharma. The article describes how cell and gene therapy facilities face a unique set of challenges as they scale towards commercial production and require equally unique solutions.

Nov 12, 2019

Daniel Lachapelle shares his thoughts on regulatory harmonization and global compliance in Pharma’s Almanac.

Nov 7, 2019

Jason Robertson has transitioned into the Food + Beverage Market Director role at CRB.

Oct 30, 2019

Jeff Wegner, Mechanical Engineer, shares his thoughts on emerging trends in college and university buildings and how they are impacting design.

Oct 21, 2019

Matt Beier shares insights into food safety in pet food manufacturing facilities in Food Engineering magazine.

Oct 16, 2019

Jason Robertson joins Refrigerated and Frozen Foods for their new “From the Cold Corner” podcast.

Oct 4, 2019

Chelsea Stramel, Architectural Designer and Jake Adams, Process Engineer were featured in Contract Pharma’s “Designing a Successful Oligonucleotide Facility – Five questions you probably aren’t asking, but should.”

Oct 3, 2019

Tammi McAllister discusses the design of modern food and beverage facilities in Food Processing’s latest issue.

Oct 2, 2019

CRB is excited to announce the promotion of Matthew Khair to the position of Western Regional Leader – Design Services.

Oct 2, 2019

CRB is excited to announce that Can Aktar has been appointed the leader of the Basel office and Christian Goesker has joined as engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) director in Stuttgart.

Oct 2, 2019

CRB welcomes Ruben Pedroza in the role of senior project manager.

Sep 3, 2019

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has appointed Josh Miksch as a “Special Expert” and Alternate to Reinhard Hanselka on the NFPA Technical Committee on Fire Code.

Aug 15, 2019

Ben Rucker offers tips for picking an automation project and ensuring success in Food Engineering’s August issue.

Jul 29, 2019

Matt Decker, AIA is featured in Lab Manager for his article “Four Technologies That Are Changing Lab Safety.”

Jul 23, 2019

Pablo Coronel, Ph.D. and Brian Gifford are featured in Baking & Snack‘s “Fending off allergens with isolated production lines.”

Jul 18, 2019

Katelyn Deckert, laboratory planner and architect in CRB’s Kansas City office, is featured in Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine.

May 28, 2019

Matthew Khair, Maryland Office Leader/Senior Associate, and J. Lee Emel, Southeast Regional Leader/Senior Associate at CRB are featured in Pharma’s Almanac’s current issue, entitled “Reducing Waste with Lean Delivery in Facility Design and Construction.”

May 22, 2019

Jeff Wegner, PE is featured in Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine. Wegner’s article outlines 10 sustainable site energy solutions that industry leaders can implement now.

May 21, 2019

Jason Tucker, senior process engineer at CRB, is now a Certified Conformance Evaluator (CCE) for 3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc. (SSI).

Apr 16, 2019

Tom Rychlewski and Larry Klein are featured in Food Processing’s “2019 Capital spending outlook: Building bigger.” The annual capital spending survey forecasts a 16.6 percent boost as food + beverage producers pump up the size of their building projects.

Apr 9, 2019

Jeff Matis, PE and Tammi McAllister are featured in Food Engineering’s “A sustainable bottom line: Environmentally friendly upgrades must save money.” The costs and rewards of sustainable design in modern food and beverage manufacturing facilities are explained in the article.

Apr 5, 2019

Niranjan Kulkarni, Ph.D. and Steve Pflantz, PE are featured in Food Engineering’s March 2019 cover story, “The digitalization journey: Use segmented digitization to be competitive in a lasting, affordable way.” The article details planning and executing a successful implementation of digital techniques to improve processes, increase efficiency and obtain actionable information from them.