The Food and Beverage industry (or the beverage manufacturing industry) has a large, diverse and full range of specialized machinery. This is one of the many industry groups with the greatest production demand today and is always full of innovation. From new products to modern production techniques with larger volume, lower cost. The industry is always looking for new ways to produce the food that consumers want at the best possible price.

From simple ovens and conveyors to complex bottling and packaging machines, the food and beverage industry relies on industrial-scale food production equipment.

Beverage items include soft drinks, juices, bottled water and dairy-flavored beverages, as well as sports drinks, energy drinks, ready-to-drink teas and other ‘functional’ beverages.

And of course, in addition to production technology, it must also come with equipment for this particular industry.

In this article, Hitachi will give you a brief overview of this essential industry and look at the unique challenges its equipment poses to other components.

What is the Beverage manufacturing industry?

The beverage manufacturing industry (also known as the beverage manufacturing industry) produces beverages and ready-to-drink products. Examples include bottled water, soft drinks, energy drinks, dairy products, coffee and tea products, nutritional drinks and alcohol.

The beverage industry has traditionally been a market with a particular high demand for hygiene and related technologies.

Delicate hygiene is required to maintain high quality standards and shelf life of the end product. Whether it’s mineral water/drinking water, lemonade, juice, beer, wine or wine (carbonated).

Beverage production varies mainly depending on the product being made.

The beverage industry consists of two main categories:

• Alcoholic Beverage Industry: The alcoholic beverage industry includes distilled spirits, wine (sparkling), cider, and brewing.
• Non-alcoholic beverage industry: The non-alcoholic beverage industry includes soft drinks (or beverage industry) or syrup production; soft drinks and bottled and canned water), bottled juice, canned and boxed, coffee industry and tea industry.

Overview of the beverage industry in Vietnam

According to BMI, Vietnam’s food and beverage market is one of the most attractive globally (ranked 10th in Asia) in 2019. The total revenue of the food and beverage industry reached VND 975,867 billion (ranked by BMI). + 3.8% YoY) in 2020. The contribution of the food and beverage industry to GDP is about 15.8%.

Spending on food and beverages accounts for the highest proportion in the monthly spending structure of Vietnamese consumers (about 35% of total consumption). It is estimated that there will be about 17 million middle-class households in Vietnam by 2030. Vietnam is expected to become the third largest market in terms of the number of consumers and the fifth largest in terms of total spending on this item. in Southeast Asia. to 2030.

In Vietnam, beverage products are classified as follows: carbonated and non-carbonated mineral water, purified water, soft drinks, energy drinks, instant tea and fruit juices of all kinds.

According to statistics on the Vietnamese beverage market in 2020:

• 85% of annual production and consumption of Vietnam’s beverage market is soft drinks, instant tea, fruit juices and energy drinks. The remaining 15% is contributed by mineral water.
• On average, a Vietnamese person consumes over 23 liters of soft drinks per year.
• It is estimated that by 2021, Vietnam’s beverage production of all kinds will reach from 8.3 to 9.2 billion liters.

The value of non-alcoholic beverages in Vietnam grew by 7% in 2018 compared to the previous year. According to the GSO, in 2015, the domestic alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage production industry accounted for 4.5% of the production, business and service sectors, contributing nearly 20 billion VND to the state budget.

Challenges and opportunities of the beverage industry today?

The beverage industry in Vietnam has always attracted many investors. The reason is that domestic growth has always maintained at 7%/year compared to 2% of France and Japan.

However, the beverage industry has not been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Since 2019, Vietnam’s beverage market has stagnated and declined significantly. Because it has become an essential consumer demand, the Vietnamese beverage market still promises to explode in the near future.

With today’s modern lifestyle, consumers are very concerned about their health, so they always want to find products that are more beneficial to themselves. Therefore, in the future, beverage businesses should aim to provide products of natural origin, good for health.

Vietnam’s beverage industry is forecasted to grow strongly in the coming years. The year-end market of Vietnam’s beverage industry has never ceased to be hot, presenting an opportunity as well as a challenge for those who intend to enter this industry.

What kind of filter press is used in beverage industry?

Most soft drinks, beer, bottled water and other common drinks contain more than 90% water. Therefore, water quality is essential for good beverage taste. Beverage manufacturers need to adhere to strict water quality standards in order to comply with health regulations, so it is important to choose the right filter product.

What type of filter is most commonly used in the beverage industry? Let’s briefly consider:

1. Sand core filter

The rod core filter, also known as the sand filter, is an approved product in water treatment equipment. It is mainly suitable for water treatment when the amount of water to be treated is small and the water contains only organic matter, bacteria and other impurities.

Slurry press equipment can also be used in many processes in the food and beverage industry, or in filtration. With the function of separating and pressing impurities, removing microorganisms, there will be 2 devices: Plate frame mud press and screw mud press.

Hitachi offers high-quality polypropylene micro-membrane filters, which are widely used in the filtration of food industry, drinking water, mineral water, beverage, beer, wine, fruit wine, etc.

We can also supply dewatering equipment to remove water from the DAF system’s negligent solids discharge, before it is treated at great expense, especially when 75% of the volume will be liquid. .

2. Media filter device

A media filter is a mechanical filter with an anthracite layer, sand, granulated garnet or other material. The principle is to filter particles of different particle sizes in water according to the depth.

Larger particles are removed in the top layer and smaller particles are removed deeper in the filter media, so that the water quality is up to standard after coarse filtration, reducing the SDI (Sludge Density Index) value. of water and meet the water quality requirements for deep purification.