Our Industrial Cooking Equipment

Our objective is to help you enhance, improve and optimise your industrial cooking equipment. S4 Engineering produces fully automated Food and Beverage Processing equipment for ready meals, pasteurised soup and sauces for the production of fresh soup, pizza sauce, pasta sauce, and meat or vegetable sauces (with or without particulates).

Our cooking and mixing kettles are designed and manufactured to meet the highest standards of hygiene required in today’s manufacturing industry. They cover a wide variety of cooking, mixing and blending applications across a whole range of products.

The systems can be developed, configured and tailored to your needs. Thanks to our extensive experience in the production of various soups, sauces and other food, confectionery and cosmetics products, S4 Engineering is familiar with the technical demands and state-of-the-art technology required in the hygienic processing industry and have worked with companies such as Hain Daniels and Gü Desserts in improving their processes.

Industrial cooking equipment

What Our Cooking Kettle Equipment Includes

The following specifications and features are included with our atmospheric and pressure kettles:

  • Fabricated throughout in stainless steel
  • Steam jacket pressure of up to 7 bar G
  • Optimised anchor stirrer
  • Heating via single or double jacket
  • Control unit with HMI including recipe control
  • Flushed mechanical seals
  • Cleaning spray balls
  • CIP integration with existing systems
  • Hygienic design

The batch process system can be extended with the following options, so that the equipment can match your exact requirements:

  • Column bin loader
  • Pre-mix tank
  • Homogeniser, either in-tank or in-line
  • Heating with DSI (Direct Steam Injection)
  • Load cell systems
  • Customisable control instrumentation
  • Recipe management systems
  • Technical and operator training

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Benefits of Upgrading Your Industrial Cooking Equipment

Benefits of upgrading your industrial cooking equipment include, but are not limited to:

  • Shorter heating times
  • High product integrity
  • Recipe with a flexible number of process steps via HMI control
  • Optimised batch times
  • Quick changeover
  • Ease of operation and maintenance
  • Engineered for CIP
  • Optimal return on investment
  • Smoother homogenous product with undamaged particulates

Aftersales Packages We Offer

As well as supply, installation and integration, we offer full lifecycle management for large-scale projects.

Support & Spare Parts Package

With a highly skilled service team committed to always supplying the best service, both in planned preventative service and emergency breakdowns, you can rest assured we will reduce downtime and increase the reliability of your plant and machinery. With various tiers of support to choose from, you can select the support that’s most relevant to your production line requirements.

Project Management

We supply a turnkey project management solution to provide you with confidence throughout the process. Our comprehensive support covers process, design, equipment, mechanical, electrical, and automation, including the coordination of all suppliers to ensure your company’s needs are satisfied.

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Speak to our team for more information about our industrial cooking equipment and how we can support your operational goals.

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Why Choose S4 Engineering

Innovation


Research & Development is at the forefront of our business strategy

Safety


Our company culture is fundamental to our safety policies and well-being of our teams

Value for Money


S4 defines value for money as an advantageous combination of cost, quality, environmental and sustainability to meet customer’s requirements.

Customer Trusted


Our people and the values we follow make S4 Engineering the customer's choice.

Quality Solutions


We offer pragmatic solutions and improvements based on our individual customers requirements.

Our Customer Opinion

Darryl Stanley - Britvic Group Engineering Specialist

Darryl Stanley

Innovative and proactive company that understands the client requirements.

Darryl Stanley
Britvic Group Engineering Specialist
Peter Timotheou – Operations Director – Tims Dairy

Peter Timotheou

No hesitations in recommending S4 Engineering for the installation of
hygienic process plant and supporting systems.

Peter Timotheou
Operations Director – Tims Dairy
Matt Soden – Procurement Manager – 2SFG

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S4 Engineering is a Preferred supplier to 2SFG for all
liquid, cooking, cooling and process systems.

Matt Soden
Procurement Manager – 2SFG

Cooking Equipment Case Studies

Soups & Sauces Producing Company

In a contract worth £600,000, we supplied and installed a complete steam jacketed cooking kettle system. With a 1,500 litre capacity and a wide range of capabilities, this precision machine met all of the client’s needs.

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Hain Daniels

Our engineers visited the plant of Hain Daniels, one of the UK’s leading food companies, to install a trio of bespoke 1,000 litre stainless steel pressurised kettles. The £2.5m contract also included the installation of associated control systems and pipework.

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FAQs

What standards do you work to?
We work to a wide range of industry standards to ensure our equipment is safe, hygienic, and compliant. This includes working within the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations, relevant British Standards, ATEX directives, the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED), and EHEDG guidelines. We are also proud members of EHEDG (European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group), supporting best practices in hygienic design. Additionally, we are Safe Contractor accredited (a standard we’ve upheld since 2015), and our engineers hold relevant certifications such as IOSH Managing Safely.
Where do you provide your services?
We cover the entire UK and often complete work for overseas customers.
Where do your cooking kettles come from?
We don’t buy in our cooking kettles, we design them, leveraging our research and development teams to consistently improve the materials and technology we supply. Our kettles are fabricated by dedicated manufacturing partners according to bespoke S4 designs. In fact, we are one of the UK’s leading designers of food processing engineering equipment.