An integrated approach to energy consumption
Food and beverage manufacturers rank greenhouse gas emissions as the top sustainability issue impacting their business strategies today.1 Climate change is a complex, multi-stakeholder challenge requiring a multifaceted approach, including greater energy monitoring, reduced consumption, energy efficient food production, and operational efficiencies.
Each manufacturer has unique needs and configurations, which is why we employ a tailored combination of reduction and optimisation solutions to meet your specific efficiency and cost objectives.
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Discover equipment and solutions for reducing and recovering energy
With a focus on innovation and application expertise, we offer the right solutions for your specific needs and energy efficient food production using resource-efficient equipment, integrated best-practice lines, and plant-wide solutions.
The combination of AirTight with the patented Encapt™ technology uses up to 40% less energy compared to traditional semi-open counterparts. This is achieved through a combination of gentle product treatment, eliminating the risk of oxygen intake, and the use of efficient pumps.
Save up to 55% on your energy costs by reducing steam and cooling water consumption with product-to-product (P2P) heat treatment technology, compared to the product-to-water alternative. Instead of using water-filled tubes, the P2P heat exchanger uses the product’s own energy to achieve the required temperature.
Tetra Pak® Indirect UHT enhances utility consumption across your entire production cycle, from preparation to production and cleaning phases. You can achieve 92% heat recovery, reducing steam consumption through direct product-to-product regeneration compared to conventional indirect units. Experience up to 60% savings in energy and cooling water during sterile water circulation with the optional hibernation mode.
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 kilowatt with efficient heat pump technologies to recover waste heat, and solar thermal collectors that harness the sun’s energy to create a reliable source of heat energy. Our Factory Sustainable Solutions approach helps you identify the right technologies for improving utility efficiency accross your plant – and ensures they are integrated in the optimal way for food and beverage processing.
Optimise your existing equipment and operations
Optimising your existing equipment and operations is also important when it comes to reducing your utilities consumption and costs, every single day of production. By leveraging a comprehensive portfolio of upgrades and plant components, as well as automation and digital solutions, we help you upgrade your equipment and streamline your processes.
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.
Implementing upgrades to your processing and packaging lines help reduce energy consumption while maintaining productivity. From our vast portfolio, a homogeniser head upgrade can lead to 26% in energy savings*, while replacing the pneumatic cylinders with the DIMC servo toolbox on a Tetra Pak ® A3/Flex can save compressed air consumption per year by up to 120,000 m3, equivalent to 8,500 kg CO2e**.
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® PlantMaster enables total workflow control by collecting, analysing, and visualising production data. Getting real-time information about your entire plant helps you achive energy, water, and waste savings and reduce your operational costs.
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.
1 Tetra Pak Business-to-Business Research on Planetary Challenges and Their Impact on Food and Beverage Manufacturers, 2023, n= 346
Tetra Pak® Upgrades
* Comparing homogenising head HD1 vs. HD 100 on Tetra Pak® Homogenizer 350 running 3.5% fat white milk at 200 bar, 30,000 l/h, 6,000 hrs/yr.
** Assumptions: 4,000 running hrs/yr; conversion factor kg CO2e/compressed air (m3)= 0.06 - global average.
Tetra Pak® Plant Components
* Replacing conventional agitators with ALS agitators with EnSaFoil design.
** Replacing classic ThinkTops with ThinkTop V70.