Food & Beverage

Vanguard is a trusted leader in the food and beverage industry, renowned for our expertise in the installation of production and process lines. With a strong reputation, Vanguard have become South Africa’s leading provider of bottling line installations, delivering reliable and innovative solutions tailored to meet the needs of our clients.

Installation and relocation of production lines

The food and beverage industry presents unique challenges during the installation or relocation of production lines. These include limited site space and the need to minimise plant shutdowns while keeping operations live. Vanguard’s extensive knowledge and experience brings significant value to each project that we undertake.

With a proven track record of successful installations, Vanguard meticulously plans and executes each project to meet the specific needs of our customers. Every project is led with professionalism, honesty, dedication and respect, ensuring seamless delivery and minimal disruption to operations. This commitment has solidified Vanguard’s reputation as a trusted partner in the industry.

Key Services

Key Components

Comprehensive Project Solutions

Vanguard provides comprehensive project solutions for the food and beverage sector, managing every stage from shipping to installation and commissioning. Our project cargo shipping department handles all aspects of shipping, including customs clearance and documentation. At the port, our dedicated team manages cargo offloading, storage and transshipment with efficiency and care. With an extensive transport fleet, we offer tailored solutions to safely deliver cargo to site, before using our expertise to precisely lift and install the units. Our team completes the process with the mechanical and electrical installation, commissioning the equipment for a smooth handover to the client.

Continuous investment of our equipment fleet

As a business, we consistently invest in our equipment fleet to ensure we operate the latest technologies for the food and beverage sector. Our extensive transport fleet includes a wide range of trailer configurations, enabling the safe transport of all components within the sector. Our hydraulic gantry systems and crane fleet provide our engineering team with the equipment required to design tailored engineering solutions. Our fleet of compact Ormig pick and carry cranes are particularly suited for the restricted spaces often presented in this sector, removing the need for a larger crane that would have a bigger impact on site operations.

Our Approach

We go above and beyond, and we strive to exceed all clients’ needs and expectations. From the initial inception of a project, our involvement includes the management of every individual stage of the process, ensuring the delivery of a complete solution and peace of mind to every client we work with.

Commercial Support

We listen and we’re honest. We work closely with our clients to listen and fully understand the requirements of the project. We provide all necessary commercial support from the very early stages of the project and remain proactively engaged right through to project completion, ensuring we exceed all of our clients needs and expectations.

Engineering & Design

Our expert in-house engineering
team are dedicated to providing bespoke solutions to each and every project we undertake. We use our knowledge and experience to approach projects with confidence, and our industry leading equipment fleet to successfully deliver the designed concept.

Operational Delivery

We pride ourselves on consistently delivering successful projects for our clients. Approaching each unique project with our unique knowledge and skillset. We use our experience to deliver every project with professionalism, honesty, dedication and respect. Ensuring we offer the highest quality service for a safe and efficient delivery.

Commissioning & Handover

Vanguard provides a
comprehensive commissioning
service for our clients projects, offering a complete solution to the operational challenges that are faced within the industry. We project manage each aspect of the delivery and ensure clear and robust handovers are in place at project signoff. 

Highest Standards of Service

Our team remain committed to providing the highest standards of service across each of our projects. We believe in offering a personal approach to delivering industry leading solutions for our clients. We listen and we’re honest in our approach, taking pride in our client relationships. 

We are Vanguard

Projects

We pride ourselves on consistently delivering successful projects for our clients, so we wanted to demonstrate some of our most recent projects.

Transportation of 171ton cold box from Namibia to Zambia

Vanguard Relocate the SAS Assegaai Submarine

Vanguards record breaking wind blade transportation