About Us

The Portland Kettle Works story

Portland Kettle Works was founded in 2011 to offer new solutions to the burgeoning craft beverage industry, and has built a global reputation on its high standards, innovative process engineering, and strong commitment to provide clients with a superior product for their liquid processing operations.

PKW’s award winning brewing systems have been installed in production facilities around the world, from startups to Fortune 500 Companies. We owe our experience to countless hours touring production operations around the world, working side by side with our clients to build to spec, and expertly installing over 5,000 complex systems worldwide.

“Clients view us as their creative partner,” says Thad Fisco, PKW founder. “We established PKW not just to design and manufacture top of line systems and hardware, but to help our clients gain efficiencies through innovation.

Portland Kettle Works is an award winning manufacturer of superior, domestically made liquid processing systems for the beverage industry, and is a registered business of Tern Industries LLC. Portland Kettle Works contracts exclusively with PKW Manufacturing, an independently owned manufacturing business based in Portland, Oregon.