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Your End-to-End Partner for Food & Beverage Facilities

Integrated design-build partner for food and beverage companies expanding, modernizing, and optimizing production.

Market Overview

Balancing Safety, Speed, and Scale

Food and beverage manufacturers are balancing production demands, food safety standards, and evolving customer expectations while investing in automation, modernization, and operational efficiency. Facilities must support reliable production, adapt to changing technologies, and scale efficiently.

Market Expertise

Built for Food & Beverage Production

For six consecutive years, Gray has been named by ENR as a Top 5 Contractor in Food & Beverage, including three No. 1 finishes. Gray delivers food and beverage facilities that are built to operate efficiently from day one. Our teams focus on execution, consistency, speed to market, and long-term performance, helping customers move forward faster, with greater confidence, and with reliable production outcomes.

No. 3
Top Contractor in Food & Beverage (ENR)
$5B+
in Food & Beverage projects
70%+
of Food & Beverage projects are with repeat customers

Our Approach

How We Deliver Food & Beverage Projects

Food and beverage projects require alignment across facility design, production systems, automation, and execution. Gray brings in-house teams together early to support informed decision making, reduce risk, and keep projects moving forward with confidence from planning through startup.

Integrated Design-Build

Integrated design-build has long been central to Gray’s approach—bringing in-house engineering, design, and construction together early under one aligned team.

Flexible Project Support

We meet you where you are, whether building a new facility, expanding capacity, or modernizing existing operations–scaling support to fit project goals, complexity, and timelines.

Production-Focused Expertise

Our expertise in process-driven environments shapes how we approach projects–aligning facility design with production flow, automation, equipment, and operational requirements to support efficient, reliable performance.

Early Engagement

We engage early to shape scope, identify risks, and coordinate key partners—helping manage procurement challenges, protect schedules, and deliver with greater speed and cost certainty.

"Gray’s proposed plant concept was hands down the most impressive, checking every box we requested. Their willingness to create something that no one else had ever seen is why we selected Gray."

Ron Prestage President, Prestage Farms
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Design-Build Expertise

Design-Build for Food & Beverage

Food and beverage projects require alignment between facility design, production processes, automation, and equipment from the start. Gray’s integrated design-build approach brings these in-house elements together early, helping ensure facilities support increasingly automated production environments and how products are made, packaged, and moved through the space.
By addressing layout, utilities, automation, and equipment installation requirements upfront, we help reduce rework and support smoother execution. This is especially valuable in active facilities, where upgrades and expansions must be completed with minimal disruption while maintaining operations and meeting strict food safety standards.

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FDI

Supporting Global Food Production

The United States continues to be a leading destination for food and beverage investment. Gray supports international companies as they establish and expand operations across the U.S., helping navigate site selection, regulatory requirements, and facility planning.
We work closely with global customers to align projects with local conditions, workforce availability, and production needs. With experience delivering facilities for international brands, we help create a clear path from initial investment through successful project delivery.

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Markets We Serve

Food & Beverage Markets

Bakery, Snacks, & Cereal

Beverage

Beer, Wine, & Spirits

Condiments & Sauces

Confectionery

Dairy

Prepared Foods

Protein

Pet Food

Leadership

Meet The Team

Gray’s food and beverage leaders bring deep experience across complex facility projects. They work closely with customers to guide planning, support decision-making, and help ensure projects are delivered consistently from concept through startup.

Related Information

Featured Food & Beverage Projects & Insights

Explore insights on food and beverage facility design, production processes, and automation. These resources highlight how manufacturers improve efficiency, maintain quality, and adapt to evolving consumer and operational demands.

FAQ

Food & Beverage Project FAQs

Get answers to common questions about food and beverage facility planning, design, and construction. Learn how Gray supports production, food safety, and efficient delivery across a wide range of projects.

Planning starts with understanding your production process, your product’s unique requirements, and facility flow. Layout, utilities, and systems must support both food processing and beverage processing, while meeting operational needs and supporting food and beverage manufacturing.

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Call us at 859.281.5000 or send us a message using this contact form.