Food Industry

The food industry generates large quantities of moist by-products, residues and wastewater along the entire value chain. Modern separation technology enables economical and resource-efficient processing. Applications range from pressing wastewater out of fruit and vegetable scraps — such as potato peels — through separating food waste on cruise ships, all the way to reliable dewatering of grain mash in distilleries or spent grains in breweries.

The benefit is clearly measurable: mechanical separation into solid and liquid phases significantly reduces waste volume — often by up to 90 %. Disposal becomes much easier, transport and disposal costs drop, and new reuse possibilities open up. At the same time, time as well as investment and operating costs are sustainably reduced.

Resulting solids do not necessarily have to be disposed of. Depending on composition, they can be used as agricultural fertilizer or processed into valuable feed materials. The liquid phase, in turn, is often reintegrated into the production cycle as process or wash water — an important contribution to reducing freshwater demand.

With efficient separation, by-products become valuable resources — and disposal costs turn into savings potential.