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Beverages & Soft Drink Industry

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Tank Technology for the Beverages and Soft Drink Industry

Successful Beverage production means maximising yield from raw materials, maintaining desired taste qualities and minimising waste and inefficiency through sustainable processing.

inTank’s selection of Alfa Laval’s equipment and solutions ensure reliable, hygienic production as well as efficient, effective cleaning-in-place (CIP) of production lines – complying in full with the strictest regulatory standards for hygienic applications.

Tank Cleaning & Mixing Equipment for...

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Smoothies

High product viscosities and fibrous materials make mixing smoothies and cleaning tanks between batches a unique challenge. Alfa Laval’s Rotary Jet Heads, such as the TJ20G, ensure thorough cleaning, with their high-impact, low-flow designs, while requiring 20-30% less fluid than rotary spray balls, and reducing time to clean by up to 50%.

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Carbonated & Soft Drinks

Fast, homogenous mixing and rapid cleaning are essential for syrup tanks. The Alfa Laval Rotary Jet Mixer range guarantees a swift and effective mix while also acting as highly proficient CIP devices – significantly lowering the risk of contamination.

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Fruit Juices

Alfa Laval’s EnSaFoil Impeller Agitators offer gentle yet efficient mixing for high pulp and fibre content juices, ensuring homogeneity and quality while minimising energy consumption and shear damage to fibres.

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Energy Drinks

Taurine, a challenging powder to dissolve, is efficiently mixed by the Alfa Laval Hybrid Powder Mixer. Featuring dual pumps with a shared drive, it eliminates the need for extra Pumps, ensuring rapid and effective mixing.

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Download the Full Beverage and Soft Drink Brochure

Alfa Laval’s latest brochure, “Flavours of the Future” covers how their innovative technologies help Beverage and Soft Drink companies improve cost-effectiveness, optimise raw material usage, reduce waste, and maintain strict hygiene standards.

We Understand the Tank Challenges for the Beverages Industry

Efficient tank cleaning and mixing operations are crucial for maintaining product quality and meeting demanding production schedules in the Beverage industry. Alfa Laval’s technologies safeguard characteristics and quality, increase uptime, yields and hygiene levels, and enhance cost-efficiency.

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Our optimised CIP cycle programming reduces labour, chemical and water usage whilst ensuring compliance with strictest regulatory standards.

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Tailored Solutions for Your Beverage
Tank Equipment Needs

Alfa Laval tank cleaning technologies don’t just ensure the highest standards of hygiene and safety compliance, but also deliver the automation and efficiency needed to optimise production costs and meet increasingly ambitious sustainability targets.

Advanced Impellers, Rotary Jet Heads and Hybrid Powder Mixers combine precise control and robust performance to help you achieve consistent product quality and efficient blending operations while reducing operational costs.

The specialised IBC Cleaning Systems we provide deliver thorough, validated cleaning of Intermediate Bulk Containers, ensuring consistent hygiene standards and efficient turnaround times.

From Sight Glasses and Manways to Filters and Tank Legs, Alfa Laval’s comprehensive range of Tank Accessories is engineered to meet the specific demands of Beverage production, combining easy maintenance access with robust hygienic design.

Alfa Laval’s hygienic Tank Pumps are specifically designed for the Beverage industry’s demanding requirements, delivering reliable and efficient product transfer while maintaining integrity and meeting strict sanitary standards.

Precision-engineered Tank Valves ensure reliable flow control and hygienic operation throughout your Beverage production process, combining easy maintenance with superior cleanability to protect product quality and safety.

Alfa Laval Products for the Beverage and Soft Drink Industry

Alfa Laval’s products safeguard characteristics and quality, increase uptime, yields and hygiene levels, and enhance cost-efficiency in Beverage production processes.
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Rotary Jet Mixer

Leveraging Rotary Jet Head technology, the Alfa Laval Rotary Jet Mixer ensures rapid mixing and effective tank cleaning. Additionally, it synergises with the Alfa Laval Hybrid Powder Mixer to enhance powder dissolution capabilities.

Hybrid Powder Mixer

The Alfa Laval Hybrid Powder Mixer utilises twin Pumps driven by a shared mechanism, eliminating the necessity for extra Pumps. With the capability of generating up to 4-bar outlet pressure, it guarantees swift and efficient performance across various soft drink applications.

LKH Prime Pump

Derived from the renowned Alfa Laval LKH Pump series, the Alfa Laval LKH Prime stands as a versatile, energy-efficient, self-priming Pump. It integrates innovative design and air-screw technology to surpass industry standards.

TJ20G

This tank cleaning Rotary Jet Head eliminates residues while reducing cycle times and costs for energy, water, and cleaning agents.

EnsaFoil Impeller

Crafted for consistent product speed across the entire span of the agitator’s blades, the Alfa Laval EnSaFoil merges efficient agitation with reduced energy usage. It also diminishes shear, safeguarding particles from harm.

Unique Mixproof Valves

These valves allow for the simultaneous passage of two separate fluids within the same valve, ensuring there is no possibility of cross-contamination.

OptiLobe Pump

The Alfa Laval OptiLobe Rotary Lobe Pump ensures dependable fluid transfer and delicate product handling, accompanied by minimal pulsation, shear, and noise for a seamless operational experience.

SRU Pump

Durable and dependable, Alfa Laval SRU Rotary Lobe Pumps provide gentle and efficient pumping, minimising damage to ingredients, stabiliser complexes, and particulates for enhanced reliability.

Rotacheck

This monitoring device verifies the Cleaning-in-Place process for nearly any Rotary Jet Head tank cleaning machine. Its distinctive built-in intelligence and advanced analogue sensing technology guarantee unparalleled accuracy and dependability.

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The Alfa Laval Hybrid Powder Mixer utilises twin pumps driven by a shared mechanism, eliminating the necessity for extra Pumps. With the capability of generating up to 4-bar outlet pressure, it guarantees swift and efficient performance across various soft drink applications.

Leveraging Rotary Jet Head technology, Alfa Laval Rotary Jet Mixers ensure rapid mixing and effective tank cleaning. Additionally, they synergise with Alfa Laval Hybrid Powder Mixers to enhance powder dissolution capabilities.

Crafted for consistent product speed across the entire span of the agitator’s blades, Alfa Laval Agitators with EnSaFoil Impellers merge efficient agitation with reduced energy usage. They also diminishes shear, safeguarding particles from harm.

Derived from the renowned Alfa Laval LKH Pump series, the Alfa Laval LKH Prime stands as a versatile, energy-efficient, self-priming Pump. It integrates innovative design and air-screw technology to surpass industry standards.

The Alfa Laval OptiLobe Rotary Lobe Pump ensures dependable fluid transfer and delicate product handling, accompanied by minimal pulsation, shear, and noise for a seamless operational experience.

Durable and dependable, Alfa Laval SRU Rotary Lobe Pumps provide gentle and efficient pumping, minimising damage to ingredients, stabiliser complexes, and particulates for enhanced reliability.

These Valves allow for the simultaneous passage of two separate fluids within the same Valve, with no possibility of cross-contamination.

This tank cleaning Rotary Jet Head eliminates residues while reducing cycle times and costs for energy, water, and cleaning agents.

This monitoring device verifies the Cleaning-in-Place process for nearly any Rotary Jet Head tank cleaning machine. Its distinctive built-in intelligence and advanced analogue sensing technology guarantee unparalleled accuracy and dependability.

Beverage and Soft Drink Case Studies

Alfa Laval’s innovative mixing solutions resulted in improved process flexibility and 50% faster batch production.

The user-friendly and cost-effective online condition monitoring enabled Britvic to maintain pumps at peak performance.

Why Choose inTank

Why Choose inTank Technologies?

inTank Technologies is committed to being the leading tank solution provider for the UK Beverage and Soft Drink Industry, delivering exceptional value while maintaining our reputation for outstanding customer service.

A ‘Whatever it takes’ approach drives our dedication to helping Beverage Manufacturers optimise their operations. We understand the unique challenges of Beverage production, and our solutions are specifically designed to reduce water, chemical, CO2, and energy usage in your facilities. With tank mixing systems that can cut energy costs by up to 80% and tank cleaning equipment that uses up to 90% less water, you can trust our solutions to boost both your sustainability credentials and your bottom line. 

Suggested Products

Hybrid Powder Mixers

Alfa Laval’s dual-stage inline powder dissolution units disperse and mix powders into liquids to create homogenous blends quickly and efficiently.

Rotary Jet Mixers

Alfa Laval Rotary Jet Mixers are designed for liquid mixing, gas dispersion, powder mixing, and tank cleaning while reducing time taken and energy consumed.

Agitators

The Alfa Laval EnSaFoil Tank Agitator range offers gentle but efficient mixing that protects product integrity while significantly reducing energy consumption.

Rotary Jet Heads

Improve process efficiency, productivity and end-product quality with Alfa Laval Rotary Jet Heads – ensuring exceptional cleanability of your process tanks.

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Beverage Industry FAQs

Alfa Laval and Arcus’s comprehensive tank technology ensures consistent Beverage quality through a combination of advanced features including Rotary Jet Mixers for efficient blending, EnSaFoil impellers for gentle product handling, and innovative cleaning systems like the TJ20G that uses up to 70% less cleaning fluid while reducing cleaning time by half.

Yes, our tank cleaning systems are designed specifically for food safety compliance and hygienic operation in beverage production.

Yes, Alfa Laval’s tank equipment is specifically designed to handle diverse beverage types with specialised solutions for each category – carbonated, juices, non-alcoholic beers, smoothies and energy drinks.

Our tank equipment minimises resource usage through several innovative design features and efficient processes. Their EnSaFoil agitator impeller design combines efficient agitation with lower energy consumption, the TJ20G uses 50-70% less cleaning fluid than traditional static spray heads, and the Hybrid Powder Mixer uses a shared drive for two pumps, eliminating the need for additional energy-consuming equipment.

Yes, our tank mixing solutions are specifically engineered for large-scale beverage production with features that support industrial-scale operations.

Yes, our tank systems are specifically designed to integrate with CIP processes.

Arcus and Alfa Laval’s cleaning systems are designed to clean a comprehensive range of Beverage production equipment, including tanks and vessels, and other processing equipment.

The tank cleaning equipment we supply reduces downtime between batches through its high-impact, low flow rate rotary jet cleaning heads that blast residues off tank surfaces with high-impact water jets.

Yes, our tank technology supports environmental sustainability goals through conserving resources, reducing waste and cutting energy usage, with no loss of production efficiency or cleaning efficacy.