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Food and Beverage

Providing Tangible Value for the Food and Beverage Industry

At Cross Company, our key value drivers center around customer success. With a focus on innovation, we aim to help our customers grow their businesses. Take a look at how our we provide tangible results for this industry and learn more about our Innovate, Grow, Transform initiative.

Increase Process Efficiency

Our experts work in a range of food and beverage applications, and can help determine ways to increase efficiency in your process.

Improve Your Plant Efficiency

Accurate and reliable monitoring and measuring equipment including temperature, level, flow and more.

Stay Compliant

FDA regulations are always changing. Make sure you can measure and document every part of your process to comply with the latest legislation.

Reduce Contamination Risk

Offering food-grade process equipment, hose, and sanitary fittings

Improve Packaging Efficiency

Custom solutions to help your packaging operation
Our experts work in a range of food and beverage applications, and can help determine ways to increase efficiency in your process.
Accurate and reliable monitoring and measuring equipment including temperature, level, flow and more.
FDA regulations are always changing. Make sure you can measure and document every part of your process to comply with the latest legislation.
Offering food-grade process equipment, hose, and sanitary fittings
Improve Packaging Efficiency

Increasing Efficiency without Compromising Quality, Safety or Compliance

Today’s food and beverage processor needs to be as efficient as possible without compromising on food safety, quality and regulatory compliance.  Cross Company has extensive experience with all parts of the food plant from raw material receiving to finished goods packaging.  Some of the ways we can help include; monitoring, measuring and moving ingredients and work in progress, moving and packaging finished product, supplying high pressure, high temperature hose and fittings for cleaning requirements, industrial hose and fittings for production machines, and designing new control systems or upgrading existing ones.

Food and Beverage Specialties

Within the food and beverage industry, our teams specialize in a range of specific applications. Take a look at everything we offer for the food and beverage industry.

The beverage industry in the United States is profoundly changing. Consumer tastes have shifted to new or niche products and manufacturers are struggling to keep up with the proliferation of SKUs, forcing them to be leaner and more efficient than ever. All the while, beverage producers must still produce high quality product which meet or exceed hygiene and regulatory requirements.

Cross Company has been working with beverage producers across the Southeast for over sixty years. Whether it’s process control, automation, packaging, hose & fittings or complete control system overhauls, Cross Company has the experience to solve your critical issues.

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Tight margins, increasing demand and volatile market conditions combine to make grain handling and commodity distribution more information-driven than ever.  You must know exactly what you are trading and how much of it you have. Cross products like truck scales, moisture analyzers, protein analyzers and more can help you ensure you have the data to make informed decisions.  All our products can be networked together or into other systems for direct data input, eliminating human error and preventing fraud.

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Livestock operations face many challenges:

  • Competition for land, energy and water
  • Pushes for increased production and higher productivity
  • Waste reduction and process improvement initiatives

As a result, livestock production is becoming more sophisticated than ever.  Innovations in feed, health, genetics and breeding are allowing more cost-effective operations on a larger scale.  Cross can help livestock producers collect data, monitor waste and ensure operational efficiency.

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The crop production industry faces many challenges: competition for natural resources, shifting consumer preferences and changing patterns of food consumption.  All the while, to remain viable, farmers must create additional yield on existing land through productivity and technology improvements.

These pressures combine to make today’s farm more data-driven than ever, which is where J.A. King can help.  Weight data is a key input into all agronomic decisions.  From balances and bench scales to truck scales for inbound raw materials and outbound product, J.A. King is your go to source for new scales, calibration and repair.

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Latest Case Studies

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Flexible Batch Processing and Systems Integration Jack Daniel’s is a storied distillery with a popular and well known history and their product is widely appreciated as a reliable and quality whiskey. The company’s traditional distilling process – known as “Jack’s Way” – is a critical component to their business success.…

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Application Note: Actuator for Lifting Heavy Loads in Food Packaging Cross Automation Helps Food Packaging Customer Find Right Actuator for Lifting Heavy Loads Occasionally, customers need to lift something heavy and hydraulics or pneumatics are – for one reason or another – not the answer. In these applications, the answer…

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Cross Hose & Fittings Helps Highland Brewing Add Hop Cannon to Brewing Process Highland Brewing, based in Asheville, NC, is the largest independent, family-owned brewery native to the Southeast. For the past several years, the craft brewing industry has seen increased demand for hop-forward Indian Pale Ales, or IPAs. These…

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A range of expertise for the food and beverage industry

No matter what part of the food industry you’re in, from incoming materials to packaging and maintenance, Cross Company can help. We offer a range of products, services and complete solutions for food processors. Take a look at each below:

Products

Services

Complete Solutions

Products for the food and beverage industry

High quality products for sanitary environments that are perfectly spec’d for your application

Complete solutions for the food and beverage industry

Cross’s engineers can help outline, budget, design, execute, and deploy large and small scale automation and control system projects/upgrades. 

Offering Solutions From Leading Brands in the Industry

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Food and Beverage Industry Resources, News, and Events

Take a look at all the resources for the food industry from Cross’s manufacturing partners.

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FCI Resource Cross Process Solutions Group is pleased to announce that FCI’s new SIL-2 rated FS10i Series Thermal Flow Meters for air, compressed air,
December 2, 2022

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In the meantime, enjoy these fun facts…

Did you know... the precision measurement group at Cross was founded in 1939 by our current CEO's grandfather, Jim King. That's a whole lot of calibration!
Did you know... A fingerprint weighs about 50 micrograms. We know, we weighed it! The residue left from a finger can actually make a difference in weight results which is why we wear gloves when we calibrate weights. For reference, a sheet to paper is about 4.5 grams, that’s 4.5 million micrograms.
Did you know… Cross Company is an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). Our ESOP started in 1979 and as of 2006, we are a 100% employee owned! Learn more about our ESOP and how that benefits both team members and our customers.
Did you know… Cross Company has grown significantly since our start in 1954. Over the years we've acquired 26 companies! Today, our five groups have expertise in everything from industrial automation to precision measurement, and industry knowledge going all the way back to 1939.