Tetra Pak has introduced its ‘Factory Sustainable Solutions’ offering, a factory-wide approach to energy, water, and cleaning-in-place optimization. This new offering aims to support food and beverage producers in optimizing energy and resource consumption, helping them meet sustainability ambitions and reduce operational costs. As F&B producers face increasing pressure to optimize resources and generate renewable energy, finding solutions to challenges such as raw material costs, CO2 taxes, and water waste fees is crucial.
Complementing its resource-efficient equipment and services portfolio, Tetra Pak’s ‘Factory Sustainable Solutions’ embodies a systematic, factory-wide approach. Solutions can be integrated at any stage to recover and reduce the consumption of resources, such as energy, water, and chemicals. Optimized resource consumption reduces long-term operational costs and related greenhouse gas emissions while supporting compliance against ever-tightening sustainability standards.
The Tetra Pak Factory Sustainable Solutions team will support customers by finding the right technologies and integration solutions for their needs, advising them on the best practice set-up for their line or facility. This results in a tailored pipes and installation diagram that optimizes water, energy, and CIP according to the specific needs of the customer’s operations.
Tetra Pak’s ‘Factory Sustainable Solutions’ offers advanced technologies like nanofiltration and reverse osmosis. Nanofiltration reclaims caustic cleaning liquid, allowing up to 90% recovery of spent liquid. Reverse Osmosis improves resource efficiency in milk separation and water reuse.
Tetra Pak is partnering with Olvondo Technology A/S to offer innovative solutions for waste heat reuse in plant equipment. HighLift™ heat pump technology, high-temperature heat pumps, and solar thermal collectors are used to upcycle processed waste heat and power hot water and steam delivery. These partnerships aim to improve efficiency and sustainability in producing steam and hot water.
Stefano Vittor, CEO at Olvondo Technology A/S, says, “By incorporating our HighLift heat pump technology into its Factory Sustainable Solutions business, Tetra Pak is offering an impactful solution to reduce carbon emissions across the food and beverage industry. We’re delighted to be part of this collaboration and play a role in the change Tetra Pak is driving.”
Fredrik Norrbom, Director, Sweden at Johnson Controls System and Service AB, added, “Approximately two-thirds of industrial energy use is driven by heat demand, derived largely from fossil fuels. Heat pumps are vital for increasing energy efficiency and delivering net zero heating when combined with renewable electricity. We are proud to collaborate with Tetra Pak on smart building solutions to help customers achieve sustainability targets while helping the industry make critical progress on emissions reduction.”
Nicole Uvenbeck, Director of Factory Sustainable Solutions and OEM Components at Tetra Pak, says, “This launch is an inspiring and significant milestone for us at Tetra Pak – especially our team, who have been working hard to push the boundaries of the impact and value such an approach can bring for our customers.
To date, we have mainly focused on machine and line optimization, and we have realized the overwhelming benefit of replicating this at a factory level, providing a more holistic optimization approach. Factory Sustainable Solutions is an evolution of our expertise, spanning water, energy, and CIP recovery. This will redefine how we support our customers in achieving their sustainability ambitions while reducing operational costs.”
Fiona Liebehenz, Vice President of Key Components, Plant Solutions and Channel Management at Tetra Pak, says, “I’m extremely proud of the team. Our customers are under more pressure than ever to operate as efficiently as possible regarding resource usage. This is, for many, an existential challenge to secure the future of their operations. Through working with them and understanding their individual needs and objectives, we’re providing them fit-for-purpose equipment enriched with our holistic food & beverages application knowledge to address that challenge, delivering tangible improvements in a financially advantageous way.”
The business launches today, with Tetra Pak’s Factory Sustainable Solutions expertise and advisory available globally. Tetra Pak’s goal is to continue to develop and expand the offering across all markets in response to customers’ ever-evolving needs.
