Accelerating solutions to reduce waste
Reducing waste in your operations directly impacts your bottom line by saving on raw materials, energy, and disposal costs. Our experts help you identify key areas for waste reduction and implement a targeted strategy to optimise production processes, while our tailored solutions leverage resource-efficient equipment, upgrades, automation and digital solutions, and advanced food processing technologies to minimise your waste and enhance your overall efficiency.
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Discover equipment and solutions for reducing waste
Combining innovation and food application expertise, we are continuously developing food processing technologies that help reduce product loss and waste during production, and improve waste management in the food industry, including new solutions to turn side-streams into value-added products.
Using membrane filtration technologies you can get your recipes just right and calibrate your product specifics with great precision. Benefit from increased flexibility in production and maximise the yield from your raw materials. Discover its benefits across a range of products – from dairy and plant-based to new foods.
Brewers' spent grain (BSG) is the most abundant by‐product generated in the beer‐brewing process. We have engineered technology to transform BSG into a plant- based beverage, in addition to another solution that enables breweries to use this side stream as an ingredient for other food applications such as breads.
By eliminating all unwanted foaming in liquid protein mixing, the innovative Tetra Pak® Industrial Protein Mixer lowers expensive product losses and raises product quality. This technology also decreases the need for cleaning and maintenance of downstream equipment, leading to more efficient operations.
When producing soya milk and tofu, a part of the puréed soya beans is usually discarded. We developed a breakthrough whole soya processing method that utilises 100% of the soya bean, resulting in a product which is composed of 1.2% fibre compared to 0.26% for traditional, extracted soya bean drinks, and does not generate waste or by-products.
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.
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.
Optimise your existing equipment and operations
Our experts help you identify the most effective upgrades, plant components, consumables and automation and digital solutions for reducing and monitoring waste with your existing equipment and processes.
The journey toward waste reduction starts with a comprehensive assessment of your operations. Tetra Pak® Expert Services thoroughly examine every aspect of your plant and processes. These assessments allow us to identify waste streams and pinpoint improvement opportunities. By leveraging a combination of equipment, line solutions, and upgrades, we offer tailored solutions designed to optimise waste management, ultimately leading to lower costs.
Upgrades to processing and packaging lines can help reduce waste. For instance, a mix-phase reduction upgrade can help reduce product losses when switching between water and product . Additionally, adding an oil filtering unit can extend the life of the oil used in filling lines, saving up to 60 litres of hydraulic oil over three years**, which reduces the frequency of oil changes and the amount of waste oil generated
Ensure smooth operations with services that have been carefully selected for their performance and reliability. Together they can help you streamline your business, improve your sustainability performance, reduce product waste and minimise reputational risks.
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.
To help empower workers in food production with the tools and training needed to accelerate zero-waste processes in food manufacturing plants, we partnered with the Canadian connected-worker-platform developer Poka. The result was the first global and scalable connected workforce service, which we have rolled out as part of our training and support solution.
Tetra Pak® Upgrades
** Assumptions based on a filling machine running 4,000 hrs/yr – comparing scenarios with and without the oil filtering unit kit installed.
Tetra Pak® Plant Components
* Replacing conventional agitators with ALS agitators with EnSaFoil design.
** Replacing classic ThinkTops with ThinkTop V70.