The plant can't stop.
The record can't break.
Food + beverage processing runs continuously, in a wash-down, food-grade environment, under a traceability mandate where a broken record means a recall. We serve agrifood two ways : the crane lift for the heavy process equipment — tanks, mixers, dryers, packaging lines, silo + grain-handling gear — and the software that keeps the traceability + CFIA-compliance record intact. Food-grade rigging, sealed lift plans, deterministic compliance software. The processor runs the plant ; we get the equipment in and the record airtight.
ASME B30.5
Mobile crane standard, methodology-grade
SFCR
Safe Food for Canadians traceability — software-ready
24 h
Emergency lift plans — processing plants Canada-wide
0
Plant lifts without a sealed plan in hand
Six exposures across the plant + the record.
AgriFood risk is split between the floor and the data : a halted line, a contamination event, a broken traceability chain that triggers a recall. The exposures below are what sealed lift plans + deterministic software exist to control. Every Maxor engagement addresses them explicitly.
Recall via broken traceability
A break in lot-to-product traceability turns a contained issue into a plant-wide recall — there's no way to scope it without the record. Deterministic, audit-trailed software keeps the genealogy intact from raw input to finished SKU.
Production-line halt
A processing line down burns throughput and risks product in-process. An equipment-install or replacement lift that overruns its window cascades to the restart. The lift plan keeps the changeover on schedule.
Contamination + food-grade
Steel rigging sheds + marks in a food-grade environment — a contamination risk near product-contact equipment. Murlink synthetic rigging is non-marking + cleanable ; the lift plan documents the food-grade protocol.
CFIA + SFCR compliance
The Safe Food for Canadians Regulations mandate preventive controls + traceability. A gap is an enforcement + market-access problem. Compliance software builds the evidence in, generated as the work happens.
Confined wash-down plant floor
Lifts happen in a wet, confined, equipment-dense plant — over tanks, beside lines, around utilities. Swing arc + clearance plotted against the as-built ; CRANEbee 3D where the bay is tight.
Crane failure near product
Tip-over or boom collapse in a processing plant is a fatality + a product + facility loss. Capacity utilization documented per pick ; the contingency matrix maps the keep-clear around product-contact zones.
Two lanes. The lift and the record.
AgriFood is where heavy-lift meets data discipline — we engineer the crane lift for the process equipment and build the software that keeps the traceability + compliance record airtight. Six concrete fits.
Tank, mixer + dryer lifts
Process tanks, mixers, dryers, evaporators, cookers set into a running plant. Over-equipment clearance + food-grade protocol documented. Sequenced into the changeover window.
Packaging + filling-line equipment
Fillers, palletizers, case-packers, conveyor + line components. Precision set on the line, confined-floor swing. Repeat-pick efficiency for line builds + retrofits.
Silo + grain-handling equipment
Silo equipment, leg + conveyor components, bin + hopper structures, mill equipment. Tall + confined lifts ; dust-environment rigging.
Food-grade synthetic rigging
Dyneema® synthetic rigging for product-contact-adjacent handling — non-marking, cleanable, non-conductive. The rigging that doesn't shed steel near the product. Authorized Quebec distribution.
Traceability + lot-genealogy platform
Deterministic lot-to-product traceability — raw input to finished SKU, every step recorded, audit-trailed, recall-scopable in minutes. The SFCR traceability the regulator expects, built in.
CFIA / SFCR compliance + evidence
Preventive-control + compliance evidence generated as the work happens — the audit file CFIA asks for, continuous rather than reconstructed. Heisen embeds by API into your existing MES / ERP.
Agriculture & AgriFood in the field
From sector context to the lifts we engineer — a look at where this work happens.
The standards we work to.
We cite crane + rigging standards for the lift, and build the software to the food-safety + traceability standards your plant is audited against. The food-safety program is the processor's — we engineer the lift + the record around it.
Mobile and locomotive cranes
The mobile crane safety standard — load charts, capacity, setup, operation. Cited on every agrifood lift plan as the methodology baseline.
Mobile crane safety + Quebec lift-plan code
The Canadian mobile crane standard ; in Quebec, Norme Z150 is the provincial lift-plan code — Quebec is a major agrifood processor. Cited on every engagement in its jurisdiction.
Safe Food for Canadians Regulations
The CFIA's SFCR mandate preventive controls + traceability. Our traceability + compliance software is built to produce the evidence SFCR requires, audit-trailed.
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points
The food-safety methodology underpinning preventive controls. Our software supports the HACCP record + monitoring the plant's program defines.
Slings + rigging hardware
Governs slings, shackles, links, and connecting hardware. Cited on the rigging spec — each component rated, food-grade-selected near product-contact zones.
Data-integrity principles
Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original, Accurate + Complete, Consistent, Enduring, Available. The traceability record is built to hold to ALCOA+ for an audit.
Four capability lines. One agrifood engagement.
Maxor's four service pillars all show up in agrifood — the lift, the simulation, the food-grade rigging, and the traceability software. Here's how each earns its place.
Sealed plans + emergency response
Process-equipment, packaging-line, and silo lifts, single-crane to multi-crane tandem, sequenced into the changeover window. Same-day emergency tier when a line-down threatens production. Capacity utilization per pick ; Z150 / B30.5 cited inline.
Distribution + training + implementation
Tank installs, confined-floor swings, and silo lifts modeled in CRANEbee before the crane sets up. Swing arc + product-zone keep-clear drawn against actual plant geometry. We distribute, train, and implement the platform on Canadian agrifood projects.
Distribution + advisory + training
Dyneema® synthetic rigging for product-contact-adjacent handling — non-marking, cleanable, non-conductive, no steel shed near the product. The food-grade rigging the plant's hygiene program demands. Authorized Quebec distribution.
Deterministic engineering platform
The main story alongside the lift. Deterministic traceability + CFIA / SFCR compliance software on Heisen — lot-to-product genealogy, recall-scopable, audit-trailed, plus Maxor Audit + Maxor Ground. Sovereign, Canada-built. Heisen embeds into your MES / ERP by API.
Traceability software that survives a recall scope.
In agrifood, the software is half the engagement — anchored on Heisen. We build deterministic, audit-grade software : same engineering posture, same team from kickoff to go-live, sovereign by default. A traceability record you can scope a recall against in minutes, not days. Engineered in Canada, owned by you.
Heisen — our deterministic intelligence layer — is optional on any build: embed it or not, your call. Either way it plugs into a fresh custom app or your existing third-party software via API.
Lot-genealogy + traceability platform
Deterministic lot-to-product traceability — raw input to finished SKU, every transformation recorded, recall-scopable in minutes. The SFCR traceability the regulator expects, generated as the work happens.
CFIA / SFCR compliance evidence
Preventive-control + compliance evidence built into the operation — the audit file CFIA asks for, continuous rather than assembled at inspection. Deterministic, audit-trailed, sovereign.
Production + yield reconciliation
Reconciles input, in-process, and finished-product across the plant into one auditable mass + yield balance — replacing the spreadsheet chain that breaks every time a scale drifts.
Scope your agrifood engagement.
Tell us the plant, the equipment, and the traceability + compliance obligation. A senior lead responds within one business day with a scoped engagement and a path to first deliverable.