Food For Thought: The Real-Life Success Stories That Improved the Food & Beverage Production Process

Customer Problem: Recovery of wine and juice from lees is a challenging yet unavoidable task for wineries globally. Surging competition and stringent environmental and food safety requirements are intensifying pressure on wineries to filter lees more efficiently and economically.

Pall Solution: By implementing Pall's wine filtration system for lee and juice recovery, this winery recovered more than 1,000 hectolitres of wine.

Customer Problem: Approximately 80% of the yeast extract collected at the bottom of tanks after fermentation and maturation can be recovered rather than disposed of. The aim of this brewery was to reduce the yeast levels and to recover more beer.

Pall Solution: Installation of a Pall System helped the brewery achieve up to an 80% extract  recovery while reducing their environmental impact.

Customer Problem: A manufacturer of natural flavors filtration process was slow and the quality was inconsistent.

Pall Solution: In this success story, the flavor manufacturer reduces process time by 87% while maintaining filtrate quality by implementing Pall filtration technologies.

Customer Problem: Due to increased demand for contract bottling projects, this large Canadian distillery faced the need to increase productivity so that additional capacity could be opened up within their plant. This target needed to be accomplished while achieving consistent and excellent filtrate quality and reducing production complexity.

Pall Solution: Using SUPRApak™ technology, this large distillery addresses the challenges caused by sheet filters that negatively affect yield, labor, and productivity.

Customer Problem: A dairy producer and processor, located in South America, looked at reducing CIP process costs which totalled more than $400k per year. Additionally, the disposed effluent from CIP still contains a significant amount of caustic (up to 1.0%), while its process required 2.0% caustic.

Pall Solution: By using the Pall Membralox TFF Microfiltration unit, the dairy producer was able to reduce CIP solution discharge by up to 85% therefore reducing operating costs to less than $240k per year.

Customer Problem: Cold brew coffee continues to be one of the beverage industry's fastest-growing markets with a predicted CAGR of 22.7% in the forecast period 2023-2030. With increasing demand, broadening distribution and industry recalls, a cold brew producer needed to implement a new production process to reduce contamination risk while maintaining the flavor characteristics.

Pall Solution: By implementing a 3-stage filtration train from particle removal to sterilizing grade membrane filters, this cold brew coffee producer found an economical and easy-to-use solution to reduce risk of contamination and recall. The solution enabled production of high quality, shelf stable product that maintained flavor characteristics.