Top 6 Beverage Equipment for the Manufacturing Industry

What are the top beverage equipment used in the manufacturing industry?

1. Bottling Equipment
2. Sugar-Dissolving Equipment
3. CIP (Clean-in-Place) Systems
4. HTST (High-Temperature Short Time) Pasteurizers
5. Refrigerators
6. Steel Tanks

Beverages are an essential commodity in the Philippines. Thousands of people purchase these for their homes and offices. In 2021, the food and beverage industry generated an estimated 223.02 billion pesos alone. That’s why many companies invest in equipment for the beverage manufacturing industry. This article takes a look at the machines behind these drinks. Keep reading to learn more!

Bottling Equipment

Machines have allowed the manufacturing industry to speed up the process of filling up beverages. No longer do workers need to manually fill up the bottles with drinks. With bottling equipment, this process is sped up, making work more productive and efficient.

Bottling equipment draws a specific amount of liquid from a vat or a tank and then fills up the bottles with it. Afterward, the bottles are finally capped and labeled. There are various types of bottling equipment. For beverages, rotary liquid filling machines are one of the machines used. Here, the bottle moves toward circular stations that have specific functions. There are stations designated for filling, sealing, and capping.

Sugar-Dissolving Equipment

Most drinks in the market contain sugar. These are carefully measured and dissolved into most products. However, these are usually produced in large quantities. Manufacturing companies don’t mix sugar into individual bottles. Instead, they use sugar-dissolving equipment to do this in large quantities.

The best sugar-dissolving equipment can blend glucose into beverages without uneven blending and lump formation. To do this, a large amount of energy is required since the machine needs to reach an optimal temperature for sugar to properly dissolve. This prevents lumps of sugar from clogging down the machine.

Aside from that, sugar-dissolving equipment should also include recirculation tanks, filters, and powder blenders. These are responsible for dissolving sugar to ensure that its flows like a fluid stream.

CIP (Clean-in-Place) Systems

A Clean-in-Place System (CIP) is an ensemble of equipment meant for safety. It ensures the cleanliness of beverage products by preventing contamination. It ensures that hygiene is maintained through all stages of the production process.

To prevent contamination, the CIP system cleans pipelined circuits. First, it goes through a pre-rinse which removes most residue. Afterward, it’s followed up by a caustic wash which has a high pH concentration. Then, an intermediate rinse follows which flushes out traces of detergent from the previous caustic wash. An acid wash then dissolves mineral scales from hard water deposits as well as protein residue. Finally, a final rinse flushes out all the cleaning agents followed by a sanitizing rinse that kills microorganisms before the next production run.

HTST (High-Temperature Short Time) Pasteurizers

High-temperature short-time pasteurization (HTST) or also known as flash pasteurization is a common procedure for sanitizing dairy products. When beverages have dairy products in them, manufacturers should make sure that there are no traces of harmful bacteria, microorganisms, models, and yeast in the beverage.

The processing equipment is used to ensure that milk is safe and meets the legally set sanitary standard. Like the other equipment, the HTST pasteurizer is a whole orchestra of machinery consisting of tanks, pumps, flow controllers, heating sections, valves, and a whole myriad of tubes.

Refrigerators

Just like in kitchens, beverage processing equipment needs refrigerators since it’s the best way to keep drinks at an optimum temperature. It’s not just necessarily about keeping things cool, but in a tropical country like the Philippines, it can get excessively hot. Room temperature can be far above the ideal when it comes to storing and transporting beverages. Refrigerators are required to keep beverages at a certain temperature.

Aside from finished products, manufacturers may also use refrigerators to keep key ingredients in the beverage-making process at their required temperatures.

Steel Tanks

Before the beverages are packed into the bottles, or even before the ingredients have been put into mixing vats, steel tanks are used to hold everything. The tanks are made from food-grade steel that is also non-corrosive.

Giant steel holding tanks are an essential priority when manufacturing beverages because all those thousands of liters must wait somewhere before bottling and shipping. And one has to make sure that they will never leak or spill.

Key Takeaway

Those were the top beverage processing equipment for the manufacturing industry. All of these are used to create beverages you see in stores nationwide.

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