Our 2D and 3D design solutions enhance project visualization, ensuring clarity and efficiency in your processes.
Utilizing advanced LiDAR technology, we provide precise data collection for improved project planning.
Our expert project management focuses on optimizing workflows, ensuring timelines and budgets are met effectively.
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We exist to fundamentally eliminate the uncertainty and regret that so often plague large-scale potato processing initiatives. Whether you are breaking ground on a brand-new fry or chip plant or retrofitting an established line, we partner with you to lock in the right strategic decisions at the earliest stages of development.
By addressing critical variables early in the timeline, we ensure your baseline capacity, capital cost, and operational safety targets actually hold up under real-world conditions once the facility goes live.
Our small, remote team’s strong understanding of the industry minimizes costly onboarding, wasteful churn, and expensive hourly billing common with larger engineering firms. We price our services to suit the project situation and reflect the value we provide. You can be sure we’re always supporting you as efficiently as possible.
Staying competitive requires maximum productivity. Managing capital projects in-house means juggling competing priorities, potentially minimizing your focus on training, operations, or technology development. Or perhaps you’re experiencing staffing challenges and increasingly rely on vendors to manage more scope through turnkey projects.
It’s common to partner with outside experts for many reasons, but few firms have the depth and breadth of french fry processing facilities as us. When you partner with us, we’re quick to align with your goals and lead projects on your behalf without constant hand-holding.
Our combined 200+ years of experience in capital project management and french fry and potato processing consulting has included replacing worn-out equipment and revitalizing tired facilities on extremely tight schedules.
We’ve also implemented leading-edge technologies and established new high-capacity factories that have advanced the french fry industry. Two such projects were amongst the largest french fry factories in the world. Our creative approaches consistently help our clients stay on schedule and on budget.
Successful capital projects require far more than just a stack of technically sound drawings; they demand a practical understanding of how raw materials and equipment behave under intense operational pressure. We step in as partners who know exactly how large-scale potato processing functions in reality, knowing precisely where theoretical plans succeed, where they typically break down, and the true financial toll of a miscalculation.
Backed by hands-on execution across more than 25 plants, 50 production lines, and global projects valued up to $350M, we identify and fix hidden vulnerabilities before they turn into expensive, post-startup corrections.
Your competitive advantage is safe with us. We uphold strict confidentiality among vendors and clients (many of which serve all the major processors).
It’s common for us to execute Non-Disclosure Agreements when the situation demands discretion.
While our reputation is deeply rooted in world-class potato processing, our methodologies deliver measurable performance across the broader food manufacturing landscape.
Projex actively supports clients throughout the wider frozen food and snack industries, translating our rigorous engineering and management standards to a diverse range of production environments.
No matter the product line, our ultimate focus remains unchanged: driving higher capacity, minimizing waste, and establishing safer, highly optimized operations that reliably sustain their performance long after the initial startup phase.
Hi, I’m Mike DeLong.
While attending engineering school, I never imagined French Fries as a career. I studied engineering precisely to avoid making fries for life. Now 20 yrs later, my expertise is French Fries. I have spent the last two decades inside potato processing, learning how plants actually behave once things scale, and where projects tend to go wrong when decisions are made too late.
That hard-won experience shaped Projex Consultants into a firm focused on the decisions that matter before the cost of being wrong gets expensive. We support potato processors through complex capital projects by helping teams make better decisions earlier, across planning, execution, and commissioning.
The work is technical, but the stakes are practical: capacity, cost, safety, and long-term performance. My role is to help teams see the whole system early, so startups are cleaner, and improvements stick.
Ready to elevate your processing operations? Our team specializes in custom solutions tailored to your needs. Whether it’s optimization or project management, we are here to assist. Let us guide you toward a more efficient and productive future.