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The food and beverage (F&B) industry is one of the most water-intensive sectors in the world. From ingredient preparation and cleaning operations to cooling, heating and wastewater discharge, water plays a central role in daily production.

As manufacturers strive to increase efficiency, meet stricter food safety regulations and reduce their environmental footprint, advanced water and process treatment solutions have become essential.

Kurita, a global leader in water and process technologies and services, offers a comprehensive portfolio designed specifically to address these challenges in the F&B sector.

Kurita’s approach streamlines and improves water-related processes at the facility, from intake to discharge, while improving productivity and reducing environmental impact. These impacts are also realised in energy savings as well as reducing CO₂ footprint.

Kurita’s F&B solutions combine technologies, services, digital monitoring and sustainability-driven innovations to help customers achieve reliable, safe and efficient operations.

Targeted water treatment for reliable operations

One of the core pillars of Kurita’s offering is utilities and process water treatment. Food and beverage production requires clean, consistent and hygienically safe water. Kurita provides advanced technology solutions that ensure optimal water quality to meet strict industry standards and help maintain stable operations even under varying water-source conditions.

Equally important is the water and energy management systems provided by Kurita, which are widely used for thermal processing, sterilisation, pasteurisation and CIP (clean-in-place) processes.

Kurita offers tailored water treatment programs to control scaling, corrosion and microbiological growth in cooling systems, ensuring safe and efficient heat-exchange performance, enhancing energy efficiency and equipment lifespan. By keeping boilers clean and stable, sites can significantly reduce energy and water consumption and limit production downtime.

Membrane treatment programmes for water purification are becoming more widely used. Kurita's Avista technologies extend membrane life, reduce cleaning frequency and maintain stable permeate quality, helping sites safeguard both product quality and operational costs. Kurita brings strong expertise to wastewater treatment and water recycling.

F&B wastewater often contains high levels of organic matter, fats, oils and variable loads. Kurita’s wastewater technologies and equipment treatment systems help sites to meet discharge regulations, reduce sludge hauling and increase the potential for water reuse.

A distinctive feature of Kurita’s F&B offering is its emphasis on digitalidation and smart monitoring. Using sensors, automation and data-driven platforms, Kurita helps sites in monitoring critical parameters such as corrosion, biofilm, scaling tendencies, water usage and chemical dosing in real time. This not only improves operational reliability but allows rapid intervention to prevent costly failures or contamination risks.

In addition to digital automation, Kurita provides on-site technical service, audits and consultancy, helping our customers to optimize their full water cycle.

Overall, Kurita’s F&B solutions deliver a powerful combination of operational efficiency, product safety and environmental responsibility by focusing on the entire lifecycle of water and process systems, supporting our customers in their journey toward cleaner production, regulatory compliance and sustainable growth, offering innovation backed by decades of global expertise. 

For more information, please visit the Kurita F&B 360 website.