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Food Processing Electrical Contractors for Ontario Plants

The food and beverage electrical contractor for dairy, produce and food manufacturing plants across Waterloo Region, Toronto, the GTA and Southwestern Ontario: sanitary installations, stainless steel control panels, washdown motors, BAS and preventative maintenance. GMP-aware crews, ISNetworld prequalified, ECRA/ESA 7011473.

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Food Processing Electrical Services, Planned Around Sanitation

Food plants can't hand electrical work to a generalist. Our crews follow your GMPs on the floor, specify every component for the zone it lives in, and plan the work around production runs and sanitation windows, with the ESA notification and inspection handled.

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Sanitary electrical installations

Every component specified for the zone it lives in.

Washdown-rated wiring, NEMA 4X devices and stainless washdown-duty motors on conveyors, pumps and mixers, with liquid-tight connections to match. Where equipment takes close-range, high-pressure, high-temperature washdown, we step up to IP69K-rated devices. Older plants get surveyed and retrofitted worst zone first, phased through sanitation windows and shutdowns.

SpecificationWashdown zone
NEMA 4XIP69KWashdown-duty motorsLiquid-tight fittingsStainless hardware
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Stainless steel control panels

One contractor from design to commissioning.

We design, build and wire NEMA 4X stainless steel control panels in our shop, install them, run the field wiring and commission the system. The stainless grade is specified from your cleaning procedure: 304 for most washdown zones, 316 where chloride-heavy or acidic chemistry would pit 304. Existing painted panels can be rebuilt into stainless and cut over during a sanitation window.

Panel buildIn-house
  1. 1

    Design

    From your schematics or process

  2. 2

    Build

    Wired in our shop

  3. 3

    Install

    Field wiring by the same crew

  4. 4

    Commission

    ESA inspection handled

03

Preventative maintenance for food plants

Maintenance windows, not production time.

Thermal imaging of panels and connections, torque checks, testing of motors, contactors, drives and safety circuits, and inspection of washdown-zone enclosures and seals, built on the risk-based approach of CSA Z463. Every visit produces a written report with findings, corrections and thermal images that slots straight into your audit binder.

PM visitCSA Z463
  • Thermal imaging under load
  • Washdown enclosures and seals inspected
  • Motors, drives and safety circuits tested
  • Report for your audit binder
04

Refrigeration monitoring and building automation

Alarms before product is at risk.

For dairy plants, produce packers and cold storage, we install temperature monitoring on coolers and freezers with alarms that call or text before product is at risk, and the logged readings back up your food safety and audit records. Many plants start there and add HVAC control or energy monitoring later on the same backbone, with every enclosure and sensor rated for the zone it sits in.

MonitoringCold storage
  • Cooler and freezer temperature sensors
  • Call and text alarms
  • Logged readings for audits
  • HVAC and energy monitoring add-ons
05

24/7 line-down response

A stopped line puts the whole batch at risk.

Call +1 (519) 469-9797 any time and a licensed electrician answers. We troubleshoot drives, motors, PLCs and controls in-house, and for plants on our maintenance programs we already know your equipment, panels and records. Planned motor and VFD replacements are scoped in advance so the changeover fits inside a sanitation window instead of costing a production day.

Line down24/7
  1. 1

    Call

    +1 (519) 469-9797, day or night

  2. 2

    Diagnose

    Drives, motors, PLCs and controls

  3. 3

    Fix

    Repair or replace, options priced

  4. 4

    Prevent

    Findings fed into the next PM visit

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Equipment moves and line changes

Line changes inside sanitation windows.

Food plants move equipment more than anyone: line changes, new products, sanitation redesigns. We disconnect, move and reconnect production equipment with our own fleet, schedule moves into sanitation windows and shutdown days, and rebuild washdown-rated connections properly at the new location instead of patching them.

Line moveOwn fleet

Patched

Connections that fail the next washdown

Rebuilt

Washdown-rated at the new location

Wired for Washdown, Built for Uptime

Charged Electric builds and services washdown-rated systems for dairy, produce and food manufacturing facilities across Waterloo Region, Toronto, the GTA and Southwestern Ontario: stainless steel control panels, NEMA 4X enclosures, sanitary installations and preventative maintenance planned around production. ISNetworld prequalified, ECRA/ESA licensed 7011473.

Washdown-rated installations

Stainless steel control panels, NEMA 4X enclosures, washdown motors and sanitary wiring methods that stand up to daily washdown and chemical cleaning.

Audit-ready compliance

ISNetworld Member Contractor maintaining a B or higher score, ECRA/ESA licensed 7011473 and fully insured, with documentation your QA team can hand to an auditor.

24/7 line-down response

A stopped line puts the whole batch at risk. Call any time, day or night, and a licensed electrician who knows food plants answers.

Maintenance around production

Thermal imaging, insulation resistance testing and drive and motor maintenance scheduled for sanitation windows and shutdowns, not mid-shift.

Your GMPs on the floor

Our crews follow your plant's GMPs and food safety procedures, including sign-in, PPE and hygiene requirements.

Panels to programming, one crew

Stainless control panels, PLC programming, equipment moves and preventative maintenance from one contractor, so nothing falls between vendors.

An Electrical Contractor That Knows Food Production

Food processing is Charged Electric's specialty, not a sideline. Founded in 2016 by Master Electrician Tyler Weiss: licensed, fully insured and prequalified on ISNetworld, with documentation your QA team can hand to an auditor.

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Contractor licence
ECRA/ESA 7011473
Prequalification
ISNetworld member contractor
Insurance
Fully insured
Line-down response
24/7

Food Processing Electrical Questions

Yes, that's our specialty. We install stainless steel control panels, NEMA 4X enclosures, washdown-rated motors and sanitary wiring methods built to handle daily washdown and chemical cleaning, and we work to your facility's production GMPs.

We build to your facility's GMPs, use washdown-rated components in sanitary zones, and hand your QA team the documentation for every job, including the ESA inspection record. We're also an ISNetworld Member Contractor maintaining a B or higher score, so prequalification is already done.

Yes. We plan installations and maintenance for sanitation windows, scheduled shutdowns, nights and weekends, and coordinate with your maintenance and QA teams before we're on the floor. Production keeps running.

Yes, in-house. We design and build control panels, including stainless steel enclosures for washdown areas, and our electricians handle the PLC programming and integration, so you deal with one contractor from panel build to commissioning.

Call +1 (519) 469-9797 and a licensed electrician answers, 24 hours a day. We troubleshoot drives, motors, PLCs and controls, and we're based in New Hamburg, close to facilities across Waterloo Region.

Dairy plants, produce processors and food manufacturing facilities across Waterloo Region, Toronto, the GTA and Southwestern Ontario, including Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, Stratford and London. If your site requires contractor prequalification, we're already on ISNetworld.

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