Creating a successful water reduction strategy
Water is fundamental to food and beverage manufacturing operations, yet scarcity, quality, regulations, and rising costs pose many challenges. The industry is actively exploring sustainable water management solutions such as implementing water-efficient technologies, recycling and reusing water within processes, optimising production workflows, and closely monitoring water usage.
Leveraging a combination of equipment, line solutions, upgrades, and water recovery systems, we offer tailored solutions designed to reduce and optimise your food production water usage at every stage of your processes while simultaneously reducing your total cost of ownership.
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Discover equipment and solutions to reduce and reuse water
Our resource-efficient equipment and integrated best-practice lines are designed to increase output, improve sustainability performance, and increase resource efficiency.
Membrane filtration solutions help recover and reuse excess water and cleaning chemicals from your processes. One Danish dairy used a reverse osmosis membrane filtration system for whey concentration – by removing 75% of water from the whey and recovering the process water, the dairy cut its freshwater intake by 143 tonnes per day. Explore our range of technologies that can help you achieve similar savings.
Tetra Pak® Direct UHT brings efficiencies across water, CIP, and product loss. Benefit from up to 6% water savings and 37% chemical reduction thanks to the compact and modular design. The addition of the new low-loss balance tank helps achieve up to 48% reduction in product loss, compared to Tetra Therm® Aseptic VTIS.
Mix your beverage preparations four to six times faster than with conventional solutions. It's flexible, scalable, modular design reduces equipment needs, improves mixing efficiency, and cuts water usage during rinsing. The Tetra Pak® Preparation System B-EXT enables annual savings of up to 29% in waste, 69% in steam, and 60% in electricity when compared to conventional systems with agitators and high shear pumps.
Achieve up to 29% energy savings and 35% water savings with the UHT 2.0 heating portfolio using OneStep technology. Compared to traditional dairy processing lines, this system combines separation, standardisation, blending, UHT heat treatment, and more into a single efficient step.
Unique eBeam sterilisation technology helps reduce your consumption of utilities and chemicals while also delivering high speed and low costs. Get energy savings of up to 30%, water savings of up to 45%, and reduce chemical use by up to 99% compared to the Tetra Pak® A3/Speed for portion packages. The reduced reliance on chemicals also simplifies water recycling processes – since no water is used, there’s no wastewater to treat.
The best-practice line for yoghurt milk with OneStep technology reduces your electricity consumption by up to 41% and your water consumption by up to 49% – leading to a lower carbon footprint of up to 25%. One single heat treatment and minimum to no intermediate storage enables a leaner process compared to conventional solutions.
Achieve savings of up to 67% in energy, up to 50% in water, and lower your production costs. Compared to a conventional setup where the entire product stream is pasteurised, this system heat-treats only the concentrate, treats water with UV light and filtration, and reduces the full system volume in your pasteuriser, leaving you with less equipment to clean.
Make the most out of every very litre of water with membrane filtration solutions for food and beverage processing, by reducing the consumption of water, chemicals, and other liquid resources in your factory. Our Factory Sustainable Solutions approach helps you identify the right technologies for improving utility efficiency across your plant – and ensures they're integrated in the optimal way for food and beverage processing.
Optimise your existing equipment and operations
A vast portfolio of upgrades, plant components, and automation and digital solutions help optimise water and chemical use for your existing equipment and processes, and achieve savings every day of production. Contact our experts to identify the most effective sustainable water management solutions for your specific needs.
The journey toward optimising resources begins with a thorough assessment of your operations. Through Tetra Pak® Expert Services, we examine every aspect of your processes. These assessments enable us to identify challenges, losses, and waste streams, providing a solid foundation for developing tailored solutions that leverage a combination of equipment, line solutions, upgrades, heat recovery systems, and advanced system integration.
Upgrades to processing and packaging lines can lead to water savings by leveraging smart technologies and designs. From our vast portfolio, an ECO cooling homogeniser can reduce water consumption by up to 6,750 m3/yr by recovering cooling water in a closed loop, while adding a water filtering station can save up to 90% of wastewater from filling machines.
Take charge of your processing and packaging equipment’s health like never before with Asset Health Monitoring (AHM). By combining our OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) expertise with your operational know-how, AHM transforms data into actionable insights, helping you evaluate the best decisions based on your assets’ current health and unique operating conditions. AHM also helps monitor utilities by constantly analysing electricity, water, and compressed air consumption.
What if you could reduce your energy consumption by up to 80%*, or reduce water and chemicals by 90%**, simply by choosing the right agitator or valves – and improve your bottom line while doing so? Our range of innovative plant components is designed to lower energy, water, and chemical usage, reducing waste and enhancing efficiency in food processing.
Tetra Pak® Upgrades
* An aseptic Tetra Pak® Homogenizer 400 uses 1,100 l/h of cooling water. Implementing an ECO cooling homogeniser instead of wasting the return water will allow for water saving of 6,750 m3/yr.
** Assumptions: 3 X Tetra Pak® A3/Speed running 4,000 hrs/yr.
Tetra Pak® Plant Components
* Replacing conventional agitators with ALS agitators with EnSaFoil design.
** Replacing classic ThinkTops with ThinkTop V70.