Production lines engineered for your specific process.
We design, source, and build complete food processing production lines — custom-built for mid-size processors in the US and Canada.
Why The Flow Food Systems
The problem we solve.
Off-the-shelf doesn't fit
Most processors have specific product requirements that no catalog machine was designed to address.
Giants don't serve you
Large integrators like JBT are built for Fortune 500 clients. Mid-size processors fall through the gap.
Dealers just sell machines
Equipment dealers can't engineer a complete, connected system that actually works as a production line.
Selected Work
Projects we've delivered.
Dual High-Volume Retail Pack Lines
Eastern and Western Canada · Fresh-cut / ready-to-eat produce
Two complete fresh-cut lines stood up at once in two provinces for a distributor new to ready-to-eat — now running 10–15 tonnes/day per shift across up to 12 SKUs.
High-volumeMulti-siteGreenfield
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Pico de Gallo Production Line
Texas, USA · Fresh pico de gallo for a membership retailer
Automated a manual operation to hold an exact recipe at scale — cutting direct labor from 20–25 to 4–6 people while quadrupling output.
AutomationRecipe consistencyLabor savings
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Multipurpose Processing Line
New Mexico, USA · Multi-product wash & pack
One flexible line cleaning and packing everything from watermelon to cherry tomatoes — 300–700 kg/hr on light products up to 2–3 tonnes/hr on dense ones.
MultipurposeHigh flexibilityFood safety
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Pineapple Byproduct Line
Costa Rica · Byproduct valorization for export
Turning pineapple peel and trim — normally discarded — into a clean, export-grade secondary product and a new revenue stream. A circular-economy line.
Circular economyByproduct recoveryExport-grade
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Our Global Footprint
Where we work
From the Americas outward — we deliver projects and equipment across five continents, backed by an on-the-ground network of project and install sites.
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Countries
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Project sites
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Countries served
Project & install sites
Our Process
From brief to running line.
1
Understand
We learn your product, your volume, your market, and your constraints.
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Engineer
We design the process flow and select the right equipment from our global network.
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Source
We procure from manufacturers in Taiwan, China, Costa Rica, and Europe.
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Deliver
We install, commission, and stay on the line until it runs.
What We Do
Turnkey Production Line Integration.
We are not an equipment dealer and we are not a large industrial integrator. We are a specialist — combining in-house process engineering, global equipment sourcing, and in-house custom fabrication to deliver complete production lines for mid-size food processors.
Our Scope
Every line we build covers four layers.
1
Equipment Sourcing
We source from manufacturers in Taiwan, China, Costa Rica, and Europe — always specifying the best machine for the application, never limited by what we have in stock.
2
Process Flow
We design and supply the conveyors, transfers, and connection systems that link individual machines into a working production system.
3
Line Design and Engineering
We plan capacity, layout, food safety compliance, and changeover requirements — turning your product brief into an engineering specification.
4
Installation and Commissioning
We install, calibrate, train your team, and stay until the line runs consistently at specification.
Industries
What we process.
Primary
Fruit and Vegetable Processing
Fresh-cut produce, ready-to-eat salads, juices, concentrates, pico de gallo, salsas, tropical fruit. Our deepest expertise and most completed projects.
Emerging
Meat Processing
Individual line components and partial line integration. Growing capability with existing supplier relationships.
Niche
Specialty and Ethnic Food
Pico de gallo, salsas, tropical fruit lines, sesame and peanut processing. The niche no standard catalog addresses.
The Cost Advantage
World-class performance. Mid-market prices.
True global sourcing — not just claiming it — means we can specify a Taiwanese washer, a Chinese dicer, and a Costa Rican conveyor system in the same line. Each machine is the best option for that function. The combined result is a production line that performs at the level of the largest integrators, at a price that works for a mid-size processor.
Taiwan
Precision washing, cutting, dicing equipment.
China
Grain, oilseed, and specialty processing.
Costa Rica
In-house custom fabrication.
Europe
Packhouse and inspection systems.
Our Work
Every project is different.
That's exactly the point. We don't sell a standard line — we engineer one around your product, your process, and your market.
Dual High-Volume Retail Pack Lines
Eastern and Western Canada · Fresh-cut / ready-to-eat produce
Two complete fresh-cut lines stood up at once, in two provinces, for a distributor entering ready-to-eat production for the first time — including a tightly space-constrained plant in the East.
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Client
One of Canada's leading fruit and vegetable importer-distributors, supplying ready-to-eat produce directly to one of the world's largest grocery retailers.
Challenge
A pure whole-produce distributor with no prior fresh-cut experience, entering ready-to-eat production from scratch — across two plants in Eastern and Western Canada at the same time. The Eastern facility was an older building with a severely limited footprint, demanding an efficient flow without sacrificing capacity or food safety.
Solution
Two complete lines built in parallel, each engineered around its product mix. Line 1 (broccoli and cauliflower florets): intake, washing, floret cutting, a second wash, forced-air drying, packing, and metal detection. Line 2 (carrots, potatoes, and mixed vegetables): the same backbone with a different cutting process and centrifuge drying matched to product density. A multihead weigher handled bag formats up to 5 lb. The Flow Corp acted as general engineering lead — integrating equipment from multiple manufacturers into one cohesive, turnkey line and guiding the client up the fresh-cut learning curve.
Result
Two fully operational lines processing 10–15 tonnes per day per shift across up to 12 SKUs. The client moved from distributing whole produce to supplying ready-to-eat product directly to the retailer — an entirely new business line — with the flexibility to add new mixes and SKUs as demand grew.
High-volumeMulti-siteGreenfieldFood safety
Pico de Gallo Production Line
Texas, USA · Fresh pico de gallo for a membership retailer
Replace a manual, restaurant-equipment operation with an automated line that holds an exact recipe batch after batch — and scale volume to meet a big-box membership retailer's demand.
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Client
A fresh ready-to-eat foods producer — soups, guacamole, salsas and similar high-value products — supplying a large-format membership warehouse retailer.
Challenge
Demand from the retailer had outgrown the client's manual operation. Ingredients were cut on restaurant-grade rather than industrial equipment and blended by hand, batch by batch — producing inconsistent flavor and texture, a critical problem when supplying a big-box retailer that demands uniformity. The plant was old and tight on space.
Solution
A complete end-to-end line that reused the client's existing washer to protect their investment: initial wash, industrial cutting, a second immersion wash, automated screw-dosing of solid ingredients (jalapeño, onion, cilantro), spray application of liquids (lime and antioxidants), and final blending in tumblers for uniform distribution. Every machine was dimensioned to fit the available footprint without compromising flow.
Result
Direct labor dropped from 20–25 people to 4–6 operators, while output quadrupled versus the manual operation. Reduced manual handling extended shelf life, and the added capacity let the client pursue new customers and distribution channels beyond the original retailer.
New Mexico, USA · New Grande Development Corp · Multi-product wash & pack
Design one line flexible enough to clean and pack everything from watermelons to cherry tomatoes — and to absorb new products in future without a redesign.
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Client
New Grande Development Corp — a cooperative aggregation center for regional growers, processing and sanitizing fresh produce for sale to distributors, retailers, schools, and public and private institutions.
Challenge
A greenfield operation. The cooperative's growers previously sold harvest with no value added. They needed a single line versatile enough to handle the widest possible range of products — from large-format watermelon to delicate cherry tomatoes, leafy greens, and citrus — and to take on new products later without re-engineering the system.
Solution
Two parallel wash lines feeding a shared backbone: a brush-wash line with rotary brushes for round products, and a visual-inspection line to remove impurities before washing, both converging into a shared bubble wash and drying tunnel. After drying, the line opens into modular equipment for smaller batches — centrifuges, cutting machines, packing tables with integrated scales, and a metal detector as the final food-safety control point. Open engineering decisions at every stage kept the door open to future products, and changeover is simple: wash down, change the water, run the next product.
Result
A single line running 300–700 kg/hour on light products like leafy greens up to 2–3 tonnes/hour on dense products like watermelon and butternut squash — handling citrus, melons, potato, squash, cherry tomatoes, apples and more. The cooperative moved from selling raw harvest to operating a purpose-built, multi-product plant serving every associated grower.
Costa Rica · Pineapple byproduct valorization for export
Turn pineapple peel and trim — normally discarded — into a clean, export-grade secondary product that lifts the profitability of an existing operation.
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Client
An established pineapple operation in Costa Rica, looking to valorize the byproducts of its main process — peel and trim — into a marketable, export-grade secondary product.
Challenge
Capture value from waste streams that were previously discarded, converting peel and trim into a clean, export-grade product that improves the overall profitability of the operation.
Solution
The Flow Corp designed a line that begins by scraping the waste material, followed by pressing to extract juice, depulping to clean the product, and a final heating and stabilization stage in a kettle. The result is a stable, export-grade product — a clear case of circular economy applied to agro-industry, turning former discard into a new revenue stream.
Result
An export-grade secondary product recovered from what was previously waste — adding a new revenue stream and improving the profitability of the client's core pineapple operation.
The right machine for the job — regardless of origin.
We select equipment from the world's best manufacturers. Here is a sample of what we work with — every machine in a production line we build is chosen for its specific application, not because it comes from a preferred catalog.
Capabilities
Equipment categories.
Washing Systems
Flume washers, bubble washers, continuous vegetable washers. For fresh-cut produce, leafy greens, root vegetables, and citrus.
Source: Taiwan
Cutting and Slicing
Belt cutters, slicers, specialized cutting systems. For uniform slice thickness across high volumes of mixed vegetables.
Source: Taiwan
Dicing and Portioning
High-precision dicers for uniform cube sizes from 6mm to 40mm. For pico de gallo, salsa, fresh-cut vegetable production.
Source: Taiwan
Peeling
Vertical knife peelers and abrasive peelers for root vegetables, citrus, and tropical fruit.
Source: Taiwan
Centrifuge and Drying
Spin dryers for fresh-cut produce after washing. PLC-controlled versions available for food safety documentation.
Source: Taiwan
Inspection and Packaging
Inline metal detection, automated inspection systems, and retail bag packaging. For food safety compliance and retail-ready output.
Source: Global
Equipment sourced from partners in Taiwan · China · Costa Rica · Europe · USA
Every machine is selected for the specific application — we are not tied to any single manufacturer or brand.
Individual Equipment
Need to buy individual equipment rather than a complete line?
