A Sampling of the Many Benefits of Choosing Hixson

When you choose Hixson for your project, the benefits are many. For example, your business can:

• Extend plant life. Hixson helps optimize a plant's expandability and flexibility by using a generational approach along with associated proprietary analytical tools.



• Improve product safety and shelf life. Hixson brings state-of-the-art sanitary design knowledge and experience with current practices surrounding issues such as separation of raw and ready-to-eat products, people and product flows and room environment controls.



• Improve throughput/enhance productivity. To drive down costs, Hixson uses a process to view the plant's production systems, technologies, utilities, people, building and site as interdependent components of a supply network. Plus, projects can be implemented with minimal disruption to existing operations by capitalizing on Hixson's knowledge and experience.



• Deliver new products to market faster. Hixson helps companies more effectively use existing company plant assets and delivers projects quickly through our unique project delivery approach.



• Optimize the value of capital investments. Hixson provides better information from which investment decisions can be made and applies proven value engineering capabilities and processes to help clients make the best use of every investment dollar.



• Minimize regulatory compliance issues. Hixson integrates compliance into the project by incorporating regulatory issues as part of the initial plant design and by employing our knowledge and experience in meeting regulatory compliance requirements.



• Reduce utility demand costs and enhanced utility effectiveness. Hixson applies experience gained in hundreds of successful projects to reduce utility costs and generate improved effectiveness from boilers, refrigeration, HVAC, compressed air, water and wastewater systems.



• Handle more SKUs. Hixson applies its extensive experience in the specification, design and commissioning of packaging and material handling systems to provide solutions for plants that help improve the efficient handling of an ever-increasing number of SKUs.



• Improve competitiveness with state-of-the-art plants. Using our experience in plant and equipment layout, understanding of plant operations, and knowledge of technology, Hixson positions companies to realize their full potential for productivity and success.