Wine
Wine
The wine industry with its ever cost conscious approach to cleaning offers large scale challenges with its predominately “bottom up” cleaning approach and the high solids handling requirements needed for the CIP tank washers. The traditional market can take a long time to adopt new technology, and so lead to slow change in the industry. A new move to permanently fixed “Top Down” CIP tank washers is slowly feeding into the market and once installed will greatly increase CIP efficiency.
Barrel Cleaning & Cask Washing
Barrel cleaning and Cask Washing is traditionally carried out with either automated high pressure systems or with semi automated low pressure systems. In some areas manual high pressure systems are also used. The construction of the barrel or cask and the product it has contained will determine the types of systems that can be used...
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Bottling / Filling Lines
The wine industry process systems culminate in the product being packaged into consumer level finished goods or bulk products for onwards shipping to third party bottlers, bulk end users or other such distributors...
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Ducting & Pipe work
Ducting and pipe work can pose very specific problems for the Wine industry as it comprises a large part of the CIP cleaning in place needs. Often the diameter of the pipes coupled with long and complex pipe runs can generate significant cleaning challenges. Frequently these pipes are flood filled using large amounts of liquid...
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Fermenters
In the wine industry, fermenters can range from large 20 meter tall 8 meter wide giants to small micro fermenters in vine yards. They all have very similar CIP cleaning in place issues. As the wine ferments, tartrates can build up on the walls of the tank and crystallise. These tartrates can be difficult to remove...
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Maturation Vessels
Often large in size these vessels require varying degrees of cleaning depending on the product inside...
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Process Vessels
The wine industry contains various stages in the brewing process. During these stages a variety of individual tanks, vessels, vats and hoppers are used. These tanks hold various products at all stages of the production process...
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Storage Tanks & Silos
Storage tanks & vessels can hold various products at all stages of the production process from raw materials to finished product. The product contained can be easily soluble in water or simply a water storage tank, or it can be very viscous or very sticky...
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Yeast Tanks
Yeast tanks are generally not large in size, but they generally require more powerful cleaning as the yeast residue can be particularly sticky...
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