In the volume-driven carbonated soft drinks segment, it’s crucial to keep your equipment and lines running smoothly and churning out as many litres of products as they possibly can. Your ability to do so can mean the difference between a thriving, profitable business and a struggling one. We’re here to help you face this challenging situation, supporting you all the way from ingredient to fizzy product with know-how and solutions based on over seven decades in the food and beverage production industry. We’ve got your back – with robust equipment, expert plant design, world-class services and automation, and product development and testing support – so you can feel secure knowing that your production is running smoothly, seamlessly and at optimal capacity. Here’s how:
Expert plant design sets you up for success
Our global network of experts leverage collected know-how from over 40 years of carbonated soft drinks production innovation to design your optimal plant. You get access to the ingredient behaviour knowledge that’s crucial for designing lines that can handle complex and hard-to-mix ingredients, not only continuously, but also quickly and efficiently.
Our huge database contains ingredient behaviour knowledge for thousands of ingredients that we use to help design the equipment, flow and sequence of adding ingredients. And we know what questions to ask and how to build lines that solve your challenges and help maximise your efficiency and uptime at each step in the process.
For example, if you’re planning to produce sports drinks, we know that you’ll typically need several upstream pre-mixing steps with various dry powders before final mixing and we can address this with the right equipment for handling for pre-dissolving and handling almost every format you can think of, and a liquefier to handle the powders. If you’re producing energy drinks, we design your plant layout with a centralised production area and satellite areas for performing several production steps in parallel, instead of one at a time. By knowing the relevant wetting times, holding times and more, we design a time-saving process for dosing water, liquid sugar and other ingredients simultaneously, instead of needing to first add water, then sugar, and so on, to the tank separately.
From fast and efficient ingredient handling to choosing the right technology for mixing and blending, carbonation and cleaning-in-place (CIP), we use our application and recipe knowledge to efficiently shape the plant solution that exactly fits your needs. And a variety of smart product and water recovery functions further contribute to reducing production costs.
Robust equipment and world-class services and automation minimise downtime
If you already depend on our equipment, then you know that it can run for years without issues. That’s because they are made for robustness and easy maintenance – with straightforward design and standardised components such as valves, pumps and spare parts that are readily available via 24/7 online ordering and express delivery in more than 160 countries. When you do need us, we’re right there to support you wherever you are. With planned maintenance, 24/7 issue resolution and fast spare parts delivery, we can ensure that any stops that do occur will be fewer and shorter. And what’s more, with service agreements and performance guarantees on key performance indicators like capacities, dosing accuracy, CIP times and more you get more than just maintenance – we share in your risk.
When seeking to minimise the risk of disruptions and human error, automation of your processes is a key tool. Our automation solutions help maximise your uptime, with functions like automated recipe control, production time scheduling and batch sequencing. Automated recipe control empowers your operators with step-by-step instructions and prompts to make sure they are ready for what’s coming up and give you access performance reports. And batch and CIP sequencing ensures that cleaning is performed immediately when units are available, so they are always ready for the next incoming batch, while the current batch is ongoing. You get full control over your production and can make better everyday decisions with our automation solutions that are specifically designed to solve food and beverage industry challenges.
We help you test recipe formulations and production methods faster, for all the stages of ingredient handling and batching prior to carbonation, so you don’t have to interrupt your normal production. For example, the PDC is equipped with a Tetra Pak® Mixer RJCI 4X for difficult powders. You can do trials to understand the limits of the ingredients and recipes and our food technologists help you achieve the desired taste and mouthfeel. We can help you upscale the recipe to full production, optimise the plant design to solve the batching bottleneck and ensure safety. This is especially important when working with ingredients that are complex and demanding in terms of wetting, pH, foaming, texture or separation. We help you put the safety measures in place to dose in the right amount with the right sequencing to always ensure operator safety.
In addition, with the tank fill flexibility of the Tetra Pak® Mixer RJCI 4X – which can handle down to just 10% fill volume – you can also run small test batches at your own site. And with ingredient loop extension (ILE) you can upgrade to new recipes, adding more ingredients with new ingredient intake stations as your needs grow, rather than building a new line.
So, sit back and feel secure, knowing that we give you everything you need to make sure your production is running smoothly, seamlessly and at optimal capacity.
