City: Chicago

Founded in 1921, Epstein is an architecture, interior design, engineering and construction company that specializes in delivering processing, cold storage, and distribution facilities for the food and beverage industry. Our services include process and packaging engineering, material handling engineering and simulation, architecture, MEP engineering, refrigeration engineering, civil and structural engineering, and construction management. We offer solutions that range from feasibility studies and process line improvements to full design-build turn-key production plants, including expansions and renovations. Epstein serves a broad spectrum of the food and beverage industry, including meat processing, frozen food processing, bakeries, dairy, dry product and powder processing, distilling, confectionery, liquid processing, and both dry and refrigerated warehouse/distribution. With over 100 years of experience, Epstein has built a reputation as a global design-build leader, committed to quality, durability, and cost efficiency. Our focus is on delivering projects faster, more cost-effectively, and with lower risk, ensuring the success of our clients. Some of our recent clients include Prestage Foods of Iowa, Seaboard Triumph Foods, Smithfield, ARYZTA, Coca-Cola, Glanbia/Optimum Nutrition, Haribo, Ruiz Foods, Saratoga Foods, WholeStone Farms, and Vegetable Juices. Epstein is an employee-owned firm with over 200 employees worldwide based out of our Chicago headquarters, with offices in New York, Raleigh, and Warsaw. | Epstein is a globally recognized architecture, engineering, and construction firm with more than 100 years of experience supporting the baking industry. From ingredient handling and processing to ready-to-eat production and packaging systems, we deliver fully integrated, single-source solutions for every stage of your facility’s lifecycle. As a full-service AEC partner, Epstein brings strategic design, cutting-edge engineering, and expert construction together under one roof—ensuring seamless coordination, accelerated schedules, and reliable results. Our deep industry expertise and collaborative approach have earned the trust of leading food producers across the U.S. and around the world. Whether you’re upgrading an existing plant or developing a new facility from the ground up, Epstein delivers innovative, efficient, and sustainable solutions aligned with your operational goals. | Epstein is a globally recognized architecture, engineering, and construction firm with over a century of experience serving the meat processing industry. We offer comprehensive, single-source solutions for projects ranging from livestock handling and slaughter to processing operations, ready-to-eat production, and box handling systems. As a fully integrated AEC firm, Epstein provides end-to-end project delivery—combining strategic design, advanced engineering, and expert construction services under one roof. Our deep industry knowledge and collaborative approach have made us a trusted partner for clients across the U.S. and around the world. Whether you’re modernizing an existing plant or building a new facility from the ground up, Epstein delivers innovative, efficient, and sustainable solutions tailored to your production goals. | Epstein is a full-service architecture, engineering, construction, and design-build firm with more than 100 years of experience delivering complex industrial facilities across the food and beverage sector. Epstein specializes in the planning and design of food processing environments, integrating process engineering, building systems, utilities, automation, food safety, and material flow into cohesive, buildable solutions. Our industrial team works side-by-side with manufacturers to support new facilities, expansions, and brownfield upgrades, with a focus on throughput, reliability, sanitation, and operational flexibility. Epstein has deep experience coordinating process equipment layouts with architectural and engineering systems to reduce risk, control capital cost, and support long-term operations. With projects spanning protein, bakery, confectionery, and snack manufacturing, Epstein brings practical, hands-on knowledge of how food plants are built, operated, and scaled.