Dealing with complexity 

Ten years ago, the recipe for the average soft drink was fairly simple: carbonated water, sugar, colouring, flavouring and stabilizers. In those days, a manufacturer might have long production runs feeding in the same ingredients for a whole week or even a month before changing to a new recipe. Now the situation is different as the market for soft drinks has become more diversified with not just carbonated soft drinks but also still drinks, ice tea, ready-to-drink coffee, energy drinks, functional drinks, kombucha, hard seltzer etc.

Today, a soft drinks producer might be changing recipes several times a day with short production runs. Recipes are becoming more complex and the number of stock keeping units is increasing. The production equipment you choose should be able to handle this complexity without making things complicated.

To maintain profitability, you need a supplier who is capable of acting as a business partner. One who can offer you intelligent plant design and advanced equipment that takes the complexities of your production into account. We offer innovative processing solutions tailored to your needs. As well as supplying individual units of equipment, we can deliver complete production solutions and plant designs for large carbonated soft drinks projects.

The leading process innovator in soft drinks since the 1960s ⁠

For over 50 years, we have been leading process innovations in this segment with a steady flow of game-changing advances. We continue to tackle the industry’s challenges with our smart solutions, as an example, we have unrivalled expertise and patented solutions for sugar handling, dissolving, blending and carbonation.

Reap the benefits of our out-of-the-box thinking

As the Tetra Pak Centre of Expertise for carbonated soft drinks and as former Miteco, we don’t just offer standard machines from our wide portfolio – we help you with customized solutions. Our solutions have been developed to meet the real needs of soft drinks producers from the small bottler to the big market leaders. So we can support customers who are just starting up by helping them to find the right equipment for their application as well as the big players by enhancing the efficiency of their production.
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