Optimizing membrane efficiencies, balancing downtime, maximizing cleaning speed and product quality for the dairy industry.
In the highly competitive and diversified dairy sector, narrow margins are commonplace. Despite current economic challenges, there’s increasing customer choice. New players are testing the market, new products and reformulations of existing favorites line the shelves to serve the new niches being created. Evidence of an industry-wide drive to add value.
It has become a necessity for dairy processors to remain innovative and light on their feet, as the impact of inflation require a constant re-evaluation of budgets. Processors are having to balance difficult market conditions and responding to consumer trends.
Health concerns are driving demand for low-fat dairy options, higher protein content, and ‘healthier’ plant-based alternatives. While there’s increasing deamnad for products designed to eat on the go there are also preferences for dairy products that are sustainably produced and environmentally friendly.
It’s no surprise that dairy industry executives in a recent survey are focusing on entering new categories, markets and geographies, implementing cost reduction and efficiency, becoming more sustainable, and simplifying unwieldy product portfolios.[1]
Maximizing efficiency is crucial to set new KPIs and drive profitability. Your products are the public face of your ambitions. But it’s what goes on in the hidden areas of your business that is key to success. As new food safety standards evolve extending efficiencies throughout quality control and processing methods can lead producers to achieve significant waste reduction while ensuring efficient filtration that can drive new innovations.
Recovering and concentrating milk components like whey protein that were previously being thrown away is important in creating new products that are high in nutritional value, functional and healthy. Upscaling requires minimal downtime in your production cycle, as this quickly impacts on schedules and can affect your company’s ability to compete.
The original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) recommend the best practice cleaning protocols to be followed to achieve desired production levels. The expectation that the membrane is operational most of the time can cause tension with these. If you drive for more production, you might compromise its efficiency and essential hygiene requirements.
If you’re a production manager, you will be aware of balancing a range of demands each day including the measures taken to achieve “dangerous” levels of production. Higher outputs can involve increasing the pressure level and postponing the cleaning step. The result? Often serious and unrecoverable membrane damage.
How can you achieve the flexibility you need without the risk?
With chemical technology that's aligned with the critical OEM guidelines and is a significant shift from traditional approaches to bring processers a new level of flexibility to membrane cleaning.
Optimizing membrane efficiencies requires an acute awareness of TCO, alongside balancing the lowest downtime possible with maximum cleaning speed and quality. It’s a holistic, consultative process that considers the compatibility of detergents to the membrane type and an awareness of the type of milk components that are to be eliminated.
Our Accelerated Cleaning Protocol (ACP) incorporates smart environmental and safety compliance. It delivers a completely new approach for the effective cleaning of membranes used for the cold production of skimmed milk, acid and sweet whey while reducing up to 50% utility usage, and up to 40% of cleaning time.
Its clever combination of chemistry removes proteins and calcium phosphate in one go while reducing the cleaning steps. Divos ACP will improve efficiency and output by reducing CIP downtime and can improve water flux by more efficient cleaning and increase the expected membrane lifetime by safer Ph control.
With the products, cleaning procedures, application expertise, monitoring, and control systems we provide, you can expect superior performance up to three times more effective than existing solutions. In addition to the highly efficient processing engine, you need to innovate and compete.
[1] Top priorities for dairy executives in 2023 (Mckinsey & Company, 2022 IDFA Member Survey)