Driving the Food Transformation Together with Grundfos

The food and beverage industry is in the middle of a transformation driven by the need for more sustainable, efficient, and digital manufacturing.

With Grundfos, there’s already a way to reach these goals together.

We partner with our customers across dairies, soft drinks, breweries, and food processing to optimise their facilities by applying the full potential of intelligent solutions. Every day, we are driving towards more sustainable, efficient, and smarter food and beverage production — without compromising the safety and quality that our world relies on.

Temperature control

Ensuring the right temperature in industrial production can be critical to food safety. But cooling and boiler processes are often operated inefficiently. With intelligent pump solutions, like Grundfos iSOLUTIONS, we enable manufacturers to take full control of their production to manage highly efficient and reliable food and beverage processes.

Featuring built-in pump functionalities, including variable frequency drive motors and sensors, our complete and intelligent solutions shape an optimal environment. This significantly improves operational equipment efficiency and helps achieve greater savings.

Industrial water treatment

Water plays a crucial role across the entire manufacturing process — from maintaining a reliable water supply for food and beverage production and enabling critical supporting processes, to ensuring the safe discharge or reuse of process water in compliance with today’s regulations.

To guarantee high-quality water for each purpose, Grundfos offers integrated intelligent solutions that help manufacturers optimise the entire water treatment cycle. From intake and distribution to handling of wastewater, our solutions enable more reliable, resource-efficient, and safer operations.

Industrial processes

Keeping processes clean is crucial for maintaining food safety and hygienic conditions in the production environment.

Part washing applications are notoriously demanding, as they often use aggressive liquids, high temperatures and high pressures. Using conventional pumps, this would result in bulky installations where the motor’s power is not fully utilised. Wash and clean applications in the food processing industry, such as slaughter houses and breweries, place restrictions on the physical size of the pump, as the equipment either has to be installed in a cabinet or fitted on a trolley moved by hand.

Powerful and compact Grundfos single-stage or multi-stage centrifugal pumps for car wash pump systems and washdown pump kits are made entirely from materials designed to withstand even the most aggressive of detergents and solvents and can operate in temperatures up to 180°C and at pressures up to 40 bar in box washers or tunnel washers.

To achieve this, manufacturers are turning to intelligent Wash & Clean solutions like Grundfos iSOLUTIONS. These reliable compact pump solutions are not only built to withstand complex liquid compositions and extreme temperatures. They also help monitor and optimise operational performance while reducing energy, water, and the use of chemicals.

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