The right process.
PAN-India, Middle East & Africa — Reach
Engineering food & beverage facilities from concept to commercial production.
Project planning, engineering and execution for F&B manufacturers — one technical partner coordinating every decision between your idea and a working production line.
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Symrise
Hector Beverages
Ameya Foods
Jaypore Foods
Geofast
Estar Foods
Why it matters
Your plant is more than a building. It's a chain of connected technical decisions.
A successful food or beverage facility depends on getting five things right at once — and getting them to agree with each other. We coordinate the technical decisions that determine whether your plant starts on time, stays within budget, and performs as planned.
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The right machinery.
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The right utilities.
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The right layout.
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The right execution.
The outcome
From your manufacturing idea to a working production facility.
Whether you're setting up a new plant, adding a production line, or expanding an existing facility, Rao provides the technical direction required from planning through commercial production.
06outcomes you can measure
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Better investment decisions
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Clear project planning
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Coordinated vendor execution
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Fewer costly site changes
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Faster commissioning
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Production-ready facilities
The real questions
Are you facing any of these challenges?
Rao acts as your technical representative throughout the project — answering the questions that determine whether the plant works.
We evaluate equipment against your product, throughput and hygiene requirements
first — not against a vendor's catalogue.
Water, power, steam, air, cooling and gases are sized to the process — not
guessed and corrected later at cost.
Layouts are planned around hygienic flow, workflow efficiency, and room to expand
— before civil work begins.
One technical partner aligns every discipline and vendor, instead of you managing
five separate contractors.
Techno-commercial evaluation and schedule control catch cost and time risk while
it's still cheap to fix.
Commissioning, trials and stabilisation support carry the project through to a
working, saleable batch.
Engagements can continue past hand-over, with technical review and optimisation
once the line is live.
Compliance is designed in from the first layout — food-safety-driven hygienic
principles and civil inputs, not a retrofit after the fact.
How we engage
One partner across the complete project lifecycle.
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Concept
Requirements, feasibility, capacity planning, and preliminary layouts.
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Design
Process, utilities, piping, electrical, fire safety, civil and structural coordination.
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Procurement
Equipment specifications, vendor comparison, technical evaluation, and cost review.
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Execution
Site coordination, installation supervision, schedule control, and quality monitoring.
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Commissioning & Startup
Trials, validation, start-up support, production stabilisation, and handover.
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First saleable batch.
One coordinated project plan, from the first investment decision to commercial production.
Eight disciplines, one partner
Multidisciplinary engineering for manufacturing facilities.
- Facility layout
- Scheduling & resource allocation
- CAPEX estimations & equipment selections
- Recruitment support
- Hot fill, cold fill & warm filling process design
- Process piping with P&ID, BOQ & MOC verification
- CIP & concentrate/pulp handling lines
- Utility equipment selection & piping design
- Steam, air, CO₂, N₂, water, chiller, HVAC, ETP/STP
- Equipment sizing & system layout
- Electrical layouts & SLD
- Area classification & HV/LV distribution
- High & low side tender documents
- Evacuation planning & fire alarms
- Sprinkler & hydrant layouts
- Hose reel system design
- Food safety technical inputs
- Construction phase field support
- Commissioning & start-up assistance
- Equipment specification & URS
- Vendor comparative analysis
- Value-driven procurement support
- Commissioning
- Validation trials
- Stabilisation support
Built for F&B
Designed for compliance — not as an add-on.
Our process and utility designs are developed with food-safety-driven hygienic layout principles relevant to F&B manufacturing — including food-safety-oriented civil and structural inputs during construction.
Our core strength lies in carbonated and non-carbonated beverages across PET, can, and flexible pouch formats, backed by broader experience in aseptic manufacturing, packaged drinking water, and filling and packaging equipment.
Carbonated Beverages
Non-Carbonated Beverages
PET
Can
Flexible Pouch
Aseptic Manufacturing
Packaged Drinking Water
Differentiation
Technical knowledge that extends beyond drawings.
Independent Technical Direction
Recommendations are based on your project's requirements, capacity, budget, and operating needs — not on what a vendor wants to sell you.
Founder-Led Involvement
Major technical decisions receive direct attention from an experienced industry professional.
Practical Execution Experience
Recommendations consider installation, maintenance, operations, and production realities.
Multidisciplinary Coordination
One technical partner coordinates disciplines and stakeholders instead of you managing five vendors.
Cost-Conscious Decisions
Equipment and systems are evaluated by total project value, not only purchase price.
Support Until Production
The engagement can continue through commissioning, trials, and production stabilisation.
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Why not just use our equipment vendor or contractor? A vendor is incentivized to recommend their own equipment; a contractor often protects their own execution margin. Rao has no equipment or construction business to protect — our recommendations answer only to your project.”
Team & delivery model
Founder-led, team-delivered.
Every engagement is directed personally by Satish M.S., ensuring major technical decisions get senior-level attention rather than being delegated to junior staff. For execution-heavy phases, Rao coordinates additional capacity so engagements scale beyond one person's calendar — without losing direct oversight of technical decisions.
What the founder handles directly
- 01Technical direction and major design decisions
- 02Client relationship and project accountability
- 03Vendor and contractor evaluation
- 04Site reviews at critical project milestones
- 05Commissioning and start-up oversight
How execution capacity scales
- 01Design engineers, MEP engineers, and OEMs
- 02Execution supervisors and plant teams
- 03Vendors and contractors
- 04Commissioning and start-up specialists
- 05OEM technical experts, local contractors & fabrication partners
Leadership
Satish M.S.
Founder & Technical Head
Bachelors in Electrical Engineering · F&B Industry Specialist · Project
Execution Professional
22+years F&B engineering
Satish M.S. brings more than 22 years of experience in food and beverage manufacturing projects. He has led and supported 20+ small and medium-scale manufacturing projects across India, the Middle East and Africa — including 17 facilities for a single recognised F&B brand, Paper Boat.
Track record
Selected project experience of the founder and technical head.
UAE
Symrise Middle East — Dubai, UAE
Bulk aseptic processing system for beverage compound manufacturing.
Karnataka
Hector Beverages — Mysuru
Greenfield/brownfield: flexible pouch, retort juice, dairy, coconut water, sugarcane juice.
Assam
Jaypore Foods Pvt Ltd — Pathsala
Greenfield beverage facility with dual CSD and juice production lines.
Odisha
Geofast — Bargarh
Multi-format facility with pouch, CSD, and can production lines.
Uttarakhand
Estar Foods
Greenfield flexible pouch manufacturing project.
Additional project experience spans Varanasi (BD Foods, Nature Fresh), Paithan Mega Food Park
(Aurangabad), Vinayak Beverages (Hyderabad), SDDPL (Fazilka, Punjab), GeoNutri (West Bengal), RMJ
Veritables (Bhopal), SRDN (Assam), Hindustan Foods, and COLDO (Mysuru) — 20+ projects across India and
international markets in total.
Dubai, UAE
Fazilka, Punjab
Uttarakhand
Varanasi
Pathsala, Assam
Bargarh, Odisha
Hyderabad
Mysuru, KA
Proof, not just promises
Selected case studies.
Demonstrated technical leadership across complex, multi-category food & beverage manufacturing projects.
Case Study 01
Greenfield Facility
Multi-Product Beverage Manufacturing Facility
- Design and execute a greenfield, multi-product beverage facility on a common engineering platform.
- Ensure full regulatory compliance, operational flexibility, and seamless future capacity expansion.
- Integrated manufacturing for flexible pouches, high-speed filling/packing lines, plant utilities, and process automation.
- Distinct process lines for fruit juices, coconut water, sugarcane juice, dairy, and functional beverages through to end-to-end commissioning.
- Facility planning, process engineering, equipment selection, techno-commercial evaluation, and vendor finalization.
- Installation supervision, commissioning, FAT/SAT, start-up support, and cross-functional project coordination.
- Delivered a flexible, multi-category facility enabling rapid product changeovers and enhanced line reliability.
- Established a scalable platform for long-term growth with structured commissioning and commercial startup.
17 LinesIntegrated Formats
Multi-CategoryFruit, Dairy & Water
100% On-TimeCommercial Startup
Case Study 02
International Aseptic
Aseptic Processing for International Beverage Manufacturing
- Develop a world-class beverage compound facility with shelf-stable products and uncompromised microbiological integrity.
- Ensure international food safety compliance and consistent product quality across export markets.
- Aseptic process design and integration, utility engineering coordination, and cross-border execution management.
- Aseptic process engineering, facility planning, equipment specification, utility review, and vendor evaluation.
- Process validation, line start-up, and operational qualification to global standards.
- Established an international aseptic beverage compound facility meeting global food safety standards.
- Enabled reliable, efficient production through validated aseptic processing and robust utility integration.
Global StandardAseptic Processing
Zero CompromiseMicrobiological Quality
Cross-BorderDubai Project Delivery
From the field
Construction to commercial production.
A comprehensive visual record of recent process engineering, utility systems, and facility installations.
45 Field Photos
Trusted by Recognised F&B Manufacturers
What Industry Leaders Say.
"
I had the privilege to work with Mr. Satish Rao in my capacity as head of Symrise Plant, Jebel Ali, Dubai, UAE. He is so reliable, solution-oriented, open to ideas and eager for challenges. When Mr Rao takes a responsibility, it means it is done.
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Diaa AbulelaSymrise
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Satish's key strength is his proactive approach to project management — developing contingency plans to mitigate risks from weather, resource constraints, vendor delays or compressed schedules, ensuring critical milestones are met without compromising quality.
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Syam Prasad LakkarajuChief Supply Chain Officer, Hector Beverages Pvt. Ltd.
B2B capacity platform
RAO: The Technical Bridge Between Brands & Plants.
We eliminate friction between product innovators seeking manufacturing lines and factory owners seeking to monetize idle capacity.
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Brand Requirement
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RAO Technical Audit & Match
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Production Startup
Side A · Brand Owners
Have a Product, Not a Plant?
Co-Manufacturing & Line SourcingYour formulation is market-ready, but building a factory requires massive CAPEX. We match you with audited contract manufacturers.
- Zero plant CAPEX expenditure required
- Equipment capability & FSSAI hygiene audit
- RAO technical governance throughout production
Side B · Co-Packers & Bottlers
Have Capacity, Need Volume?
Line Monetization & Shift FillingYour facility has available filling lines or underutilized shifts. We connect you with pre-vetted brands ready to produce.
- Monetize unutilized plant capacity
- Pre-screened, technically compatible brands
- No costly internal sales pipeline required
Whichever side of the plant you're on, RAO's network and technical judgment make the bridge seamless and dependable.
Get started
Engage us at the stage you need.
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Technical Consultation
Spot audits · Troubleshooting
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Project-Based Assignment
Line additions
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End-to-End Project Support
Full lifecycle ownership
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Monthly Advisory Retainer
Ongoing optimisation · KPI review
Before you invest
Let us review the complete picture.
A decision made early influences project cost, production efficiency, safety, execution time, and future scalability. Issues caught during a technical review are almost always cheaper to fix than the same issue discovered after equipment is ordered or a line is installed.