Boilers for Food, Beverage, and Brewery Plants
Steam for kettles, cookers, CIP, pasteurizers, and retorts, from boilers designed, built, and installed by McKenna Boiler Works, Inc.
Code-built boilers and vessels
Code repairs and alterations
Factory-authorized Tech Center
Factory-authorized Burner Tech Center
Fifth generation, family-owned
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McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. designs and builds steam and hot water boilers for food processing plants, beverage plants, and breweries, ships them to plants across the United States and internationally, with startup and commissioning in any state, and installs and services them in Los Angeles and across California. McKenna sizes boilers for the load swings of batch cooking, CIP, and washdown, builds them in its own ASME code shop, and services McKenna boilers and other brands. A live person answers (323) 987-1816 24/7.
Food, Beverage & Breweries
Steam that keeps up with production.
Food and beverage plants use steam for brew kettles, cookers, blanchers, retorts, pasteurizers, CIP, and washdown. Loads swing hard when a batch starts or a CIP cycle kicks in, so the boiler, burner turndown, and feedwater have to be sized for the peaks, not the average.
Steam that touches the product has to be culinary steam, which sets the filtration and water treatment. We size the boiler plant around your production schedule and how much of the steam is culinary.
What matters
What a food, beverage, and brewery boiler room needs.
Load swings
Batch starts and CIP cycles pull steam fast. Turndown and storage matter as much as horsepower.
Culinary steam
Steam that contacts food needs filtration and food-safe boiler water treatment from your water treatment company.
Uptime
A boiler trip stops the line. Backup capacity and a rental plan keep product moving.
Washdown and sanitation
Steady hot water and steam for sanitation between runs.
What we do
Designed, built, and installed by McKenna.
New systems from our own shop, and service and repair on the boilers you already run, including other brands.
New boilers
Firetube, firebox, and vertical boilers built in our ASME code shop, sized for batch and CIP peaks, standard or custom to the room.
Feedwater and boiler room equipment
Feedwater systems, blowdown tanks, and condensate receivers, sized for the makeup water a washdown-heavy plant uses.
Lead-lag systems
Two or more boilers run as one plant, so a CIP cycle or batch start doesn’t drop header pressure.
Rental boilers
Temporary steam during a replacement, a retube, or an emergency, so the line keeps running.
Codes and rules
Food-contact steam and air rules.
Boiler water additives in steam that contacts food are limited to those listed in FDA 21 CFR 173.310, and culinary steam is commonly produced to 3-A Accepted Practice 609-03, A Method of Producing Culinary Steam. McKenna isn’t a chemical or water treatment company. Your water treatment company and food safety team set the chemical program, within the limits in the boiler manufacturer’s manual. Talk with them about additives and dosing; we build and set up the boiler plant to support it.
Food plants in the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast air districts face some of the tightest boiler NOx limits in the country, and adding a boiler for a new line usually means a new air permit. McKenna supports the permit and the source test for a new boiler, and brings existing boilers under the limit with ultra-low NOx burner retrofits.
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Yes. McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. sizes the boiler, burner turndown, and feedwater system for the peaks of batch cooking, CIP, and washdown.
Yes, with culinary steam filtration and boiler water additives limited to those listed in FDA 21 CFR 173.310. McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. is not a chemical or water treatment company. Your water treatment company sets the chemical program, within the limits in the boiler manufacturer’s manual, and McKenna builds and sets up the boiler plant to support it.
Yes. McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. services and repairs McKenna boilers and other brands, including retubes and R stamp code repairs, scheduled between production runs where possible.
A live person answers (323) 987-1816 24/7, and an on-call McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. technician gets to the plant as soon as possible. A rental boiler can keep kettles and CIP running while the repair is made.