Food & Beverage Processing

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Food & Beverage processing relies on fluid handling technology to ensure efficient and hygienic production practices. This specialized field involves the precise handling, measurement, control, and dispensing of fluids throughout all stages of the beverage production process. From the initial storage of raw materials to the final packaging of finished products, fluid handling technology plays a crucial role in maintaining quality and consistency. This technology enables producers to maintain stringent hygiene standards and optimize production efficiency.

The beverage industry (the drink industry) manufactures drinks and ready-to-drink products. Examples are bottled water, soft drinks, energy drinks, milk products, coffee and tea-based products, nutritional beverages, and alcohol.

The beverage industry is traditionally a market with specific high demands regarding hygiene and related technologies.

Exquisite hygiene is needed to maintain the end product’s high-quality standards and shelf life, whether mineral/drinking water, lemonade, fruit juice, beer, wine, or (sparkling) wine.

Beverage production varies mainly depending on the product being made.

The beverage industry consists of two major categories:

Alcoholic beverage industry: The alcoholic beverage industry includes distilled spirits, (sparkling) wine, cider, and brewing.
Non-alcoholic beverage industry: The non-alcoholic beverage industry is comprised of soft drink (or soft beverage industry) or syrup manufacture; soft drink and water bottling and canning), fruit juices bottling, canning, and boxing, the coffee industry, and the tea industry.

The beverage processing industry faces many challenges. The costs of raw materials, ingredients, and production are rising, but the ever-more demanding consumers still want tasty, low-priced drinks.

Beverage industries must also comply with increasingly stringent restrictions placed on their products and minimize the environmental impacts of production set-ups.

Freshwater consumption and wastewater treatment are essential cost factors for beverage manufacturers.

Water consumption is one of the most significant cost factors in the sector since water is the main ingredient of their products, such as mineral water,
lemonades, fruit juices, beer, and cider.

In addition, bottle washing, or cleaning of machines and equipment also requires substantial amounts of clean water. This makes fresh water consumption is an essential cost factor in the production of beverages.
Food and beverage water treatment requires systems and technologies that meet the strictest disinfection and purification specifications.

The beverage industry is driven by responding to customer and consumer trends and needs.

It is challenging to find a source covering all aspects of beverage manufacturing and food manufacturing.

From product supervisors to plant and project engineers, they all need to keep updated with the latest beverage industry solutions.

Relevant beverage industry news may offer everything about drink innovation and trends worldwide.

Having access to news on breakthrough technologies in beverage processing, beverage processing innovations, general beverage industry news, and events.

How to maintain an optimum level and flow control for beverage manufacturing processes.

Different viscosities and the requirement for hygienic process environments make beverage production very challenging.

Level measurement in the beverage industry

Selecting the most suitable level sensor requires several variables to be considered, especially as increasingly strict regulations require more reliable and precise level measurement, plus safety redundancy.

Improvements to the accuracy of process control enable product quality to be increased while also reducing costs and waste.

Read more innovations and news about fluid level measurement and level control.

The beverage industry, in general, is characterized by high water consumption and considerable wastewater discharge volumes.

For this reason, this industry faces high costs for water supply and trade effluent disposal. In addition to that, there are pumping, water, and effluent treatment costs to be considered.

Also, increased global competition, rising raw material prices, and energy supply rates have highlighted the importance of more efficient production processes.

For these reasons, almost every type of business in the beverage industry has to monitor its liquid flow processes in greater detail.

Read more innovations and news about fluid flow measurement and flow control here.

Temperature control is a crucial variable in the food and beverage industry. If poorly controlled, the best-case result would be a loss of efficiency, with the worst case a completely unusable batch of product.

Check here for innovations and news about temperature measurement and temperature control.