Reduce: Clean in Place Time & Improve Efficiency

Reduce, Clean in Place (CIP) Water Consumption 20-40% per year and reduce the process time needed by 25-50%, Compared to other concentrated commercial cleaners.

(REDACTED) CASE STUDY

An international beverage company faced the challenge of an increasing number of difficult to clean products (pungent flavors, solid material, and increased spoilage potential) at its bottling plants. This was combined with an increasing need to run smaller production runs, requiring more frequent product changeovers, this had a significant negative impact on available production time. 

A keen social ethic to provide sustainable, flexible production and reduced costs led the business to review its clean in place (CIP) processes.

Challenges

The increased use of more pungent product lines with different flavors and additives made equipment more difficult to clean from an organoleptic and microbiological standpoint. Frequent product changes meant a solution was required that would improve the process efficacy, lead to better operational efficiency as well as reduce environmental impact – save energy and water, reduce potentially harmful waste streams and improve the working conditions and safety for plant personnel.

How NaturaeSan Can Help

For many large beverage company’s there can be significant benefits to using the NaturaeSan solution. HOCl has proven to offer superior cleaning and microbiological performance with estimated annual savings of between $50k and $120k in chemical costs and an associated $20-50k saving in wastewater treatment costs. A reduced changeover time between products equates to a savings between $100k and $1M, depending on the plant production schedule and the value assigned to increased plant production line availability. The on demand production of cleaning/sanitizing fluid to match the plant’s needs and the improvements in the cleaning process reduce water consumption related to the cleaning and sanitizing processes by an estimated 20-40% per year.

The use of ambient solutions further reduces maintenance costs associated with the thermal stresses from hot clean in place (CIP) processes. NaturaeSan minimizes the impact on the environment with a reduced carbon footprint, reduced water usage and a safe, sustainable production methodology.

Improved Working Conditions

Our process has delivered significant improvements to plant working conditions. The automation of the NaturaeSan system provides a much simpler clean in place (CIP) process. The inherent safety of the NaturaeSan fluids, coupled with the ambient temperature application also significantly reduces risks to the safety of personnel, who no longer need to be concerned

about chemical vapors, risk of caustic burns or hot machinery surfaces during clean in place (CIP) cycles. The value this adds to employee personal safety is difficult to evaluate in monetary terms, but many would consider this priceless and is surely regarded as one of the

most important benefits of the NaturaeSan system.

Summary

The NaturaeSan system reduces plant water consumption by providing unmatched, superior cleaning and/or sanitizing solutions to meet plant needs and requirements. The use of our ambient temperature solution lowers energy costs without the use of concentrated commercial

Chemicals, reducing the costs for both the cleaning time and sanitizing materials required for the process and the cost for the treatment of the waste water are drastically reduced. Importantly, this also improves the working environment and reduces risks to operator safety. With the clean in place (CIP) process taking only around 25%-50% of the time compared with the use of concentrated commercial cleaners and sanitizers alternative, the use of NaturaeSan has delivered significant savings in operational costs along with increases in plant productivity at the beverage bottling plants. The return on investment is often less than two years. NaturaeSan technology offers an effective, sustainable, environmentally friendly clean in place (CIP) process that is a better and safer solution for the bottling industry.