Supply chain challenges, rising operational costs, and regulatory compliance are among the top operational concerns for food and beverage manufacturers.1 Every watt of energy, every drop of water, and every piece of waste impacts your bottom line.
Reducing energy, water, chemicals and waste across your operations means increased profitability, and this enhanced efficiency – maximising food industry resources – goes hand in hand with achieving your sustainability goals.
Discover how we work together with you to address these challenges – watch the video now.
Supply chain challenges, rising operational costs, and regulatory compliance are among the top operational concerns for food and beverage manufacturers.1 Every watt of energy, every drop of water, and every piece of waste impacts your bottom line.
Reducing energy, water, chemicals and waste across your operations means increased profitability, and this enhanced efficiency – maximising food industry resources – goes hand in hand with achieving your sustainability goals.
Discover how we work together with you to address these challenges – watch the video now.
Discover solutions to reduce energy, water, and waste
Whether you're aiming to invest in new technologies and innovations, or optimise your existing equipment and processes, we collaborate with you to achieve maximum food industry resource efficiency and maximum cost savings by finding the optimum solutions to reduce your energy, water and waste. Here is a selection of equipment and services that will enhance your operational efficiency.
Tetra Pak® Indirect UHT D 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 factory’s utilities consumption to get the most out of every kilowatt and every litre of water. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explore Tetra Pak® Upgrades using the latest technology and automation to enhance your equipment's performance and optimise your energy, water, and waste. From our vast portfolio, a homogeniser head upgrade can lead to 26% in energy savings*, while adding a water filtering station can save up to 90% of wastewater from filling machines**. The result? Lower utility costs and increased operational efficiency.
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 operational costs.
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.
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.
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.
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 Canadian connected-worker-platform developer Poka. The result of the collaboration is the first global and scalable connected workforce service that we have rolled out as part of our training and support solution.
Global research: Top planetary challenges and their impact on food and beverage manufacturing
Our latest global research examines the crucial environmental issues food and beverage manufacturers and retailers currently face. Learn how industry leaders are tackling emissions, food waste, plastic pollution, and water scarcity, and discover the solutions they are implementing, both today and in the near future, in processing and services.
1 Tetra Pak Business-to-Business Research on Planetary Challenges and Their Impact on Food and Beverage Manufacturers, 2023, n= 346
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 a 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.