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Food & Beverage

Process and package long-lasting food and beverage products

Keeping produce, meat, and packaged goods fresh requires the precise addition of nonreactive gases and the removal of oxygen. Repeatable drink carbonation also requires highly responsive flow control.

Controlling gas flows and pressures ensures consumers get the freshness, the crunch, or the creaminess they are looking for.

Blanketing with gases mixed on site eliminates the need for expensive pre-mixed gases and enables easy traceability of all packaging elements.
Accurate, low-flow dosing ensures consistent introduction of additives, maintaining quality control.
Aeration, carbonation, or nitrogenation introduce the bubbles and creaminess customers crave.

Flow technologies for dosing foods and beverages

Potato chips as an example of dosing low-flow oil in food & beverage industries

Precision dosing of additives and flavorings

Use CODA Coriolis controllers to precisely add oil to potato chips, meeting consumer demands for reduced-oil snacks and ensuring seasonings stick.

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Gas mixing for food preservation

Meat and produce require different MAP gas mixtures to stay fresh – but pre-mixed gases are expensive.

Dynamic gas mixers can be used to quickly and easily mix gases with custom compositions and volumes, maintaining traceability at every step.

Fusion Flow Technologies by Alicat

Beer brewery tanks, requiring sparging for carbonation

Sparging and stripping in brewing and distilling

Sparging carbon dioxide into the brite tank, stripping undesired flavors and odors from whiskey, and controlling headspace pressure in a fermentation vessel each require precise gas control.

Persedo Spirits improves their distilling processes

Aerating chocolate with carbon dioxide and nitrogen

Tightly controlled carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas flows are used to aerate chocolate for a light, airy texture.

Learn about the chocolate aeration process

Porous chocolate, which is aerated for creaminess

Pressure controller with remote display, making the display easy to see even if the controller is out of eyesight

Solutions for industrial food manufacturing

Mount a controller on the top of a tank, while monitoring process conditions with a remote display.

Alicat devices are available with hygienic connections and IP67 ratings for washdown compatibility.

Biocompatible wetted materials in flow and pressure devices

Custom engineering

Speak with an applications engineer to discuss solutions for your food and beverage manufacturing setup.