Projects
C
avalier Group of Companies – located on a farm in Cullinan
– is split into four entities, creating the shortest and most
cost-effective route for red meat products from farm to fork.
The Group is made up of Cavalier Foods, Cavalier Livestock,
Cavalier Abattoir and Cavalier Feeders.
The Cavalier beef and lamb abattoirs are situated on the
same premises as its packaging factories and feedlot. This is
where the biltong plant is found that supplies ready-to-eat
biltong to a high-end retail outlet nationwide.
CLIENT BRIEF
Return air and provision for fresh air economy cycle.
Cavalier sought Matbar to construct and SCIP Engineering
Group to design a biltong plant supplying over 20 tons
of dried biltong per week to the retailer. The design
specifications were to fit an existing room with the
appropriate equipment in order to dry 3 300kg of product in a
46-hour cycle. Upon examination of the existing plant, AMC
Engineers (subcontracted mechanical engineers) discovered
that the rooms had already been built based on an alternative
design concept. The main challenge after the discovery
was that AMC had to employ a different approach in order
to achieve the correct room conditions and specifically the
required airflow through the product.
ALL SYSTEMS GO
Supply air ducting from the room.
The project was always under immense time pressure as it
was the result of a new supply contract. AMC was approached
The Boekenhout Biltong plant that produces more than 20 tons of product a month. Cavalier aims
to build an office space right above the roof of the biltong plant.
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RACA Journal I April 2020
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