Anetsberger Brothers Food & Beverage Maker manual Dairy Plants, Agribusiness

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DAIRY PLANTS

Dairy plants are Food & Beverage’s core market, and the division is the market leader. Customers in this market segment process milk into the products consumers buy in the supermarket, such as fluid milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream. During processing, milk products are transported through an extensive pipeline network, from the dairy trucks that deliver raw milk, to pasteurizing, mixing, blending and final packaging. To effectively and efficiently accomplish cleaning

and sanitation in these vast pipeline networks, customers use “clean-in-place” (CIP) technology pioneered by

Food & Beverage. These fully automated computerized programs and systems, custom-designed by

Food & Beverage, clean and sanitize customers’ production facilities to rid vessels, pipelines and filling equipment of microbiological contaminants

such as Listeria and Salmonella. Another next generation productivity-driven system utilized in dairy processing and cheese manufacturing

plants is Exxelerate, which reduces cleaning time, and in turn, increases the plant’s production time – thereby increasing

production capacity. A system of cleaning products and food-grade additives, Exxelerate allows customers to streamline

their wash cycles and extend run time in their whey/lactose process. Exxelerate’s complete cleaning program helps

maximize the daily production outputs by providing customers with a quicker, easier way to clean their equipment.

In addition to detergents and sanitizers, Food & Beverage provides

all-purpose cleaners, lubricants for dairy processing conveyors, a complete personnel

hygiene program and other products for this market.

As environmental concerns and increased regulations have heightened customers’ needs for water and effluent management, the division provides a comprehensive water

management services program. First, Food & Beverage consults with customers, helping them comply with regulations and minimize their costs by reusing and conserving water wherever possible. The goals are to manage water flow and minimize the amount of wastewater generated. Second, increasingly stringent wastewater discharge standards mean dairy processing plants must be conscious

of wastewater content. For example, Solodigm, a clean-in-place detergent system for dairy processors, uses no chlorine, phosphates or caustic chemicals. This reduces problem effluent constituents and helps customers meet even the strictest wastewater standards. Food & Beverage also offers water treatment products for servicing boilers and cooling water systems through a cross-divisional partnership with Ecolab’s Water

Care Services Division.

AGRIBUSINESS

Food & Beverage is the market leader in dairy agribusiness. This sector deals with live animals, as opposed to animal by-products. Food & Beverage supplies products that enhance animal health as well as milking system and environmental sanitation products

to help ensure delivery of a safe, uncontaminated food product. For instance, with dairy farmers, sanitation begins with the cow. Food & Beverage offers teat dips to help prevent infection, and detergents and sanitizers to clean milking machines. It also provides detergents and sanitizers to clean the pipes, vats, coolers and holding tanks that transport raw milk

at the dairy farm, as well as products to clean milking parlor surfaces.

Food & Beverage employs a highly effective group of knowledgeable, experienced farm specialists to serve customers in this market. The specialists market Food & Beverage’s offerings primarily through farm cooperatives and distributors, which sell the products to the end-users. The division works with distributors and cooperatives on national, regional and local levels. Food

&Beverage’s support does not end with the sale, however. The specialists also visit farm distributors and cooperatives and their customers, answering technical questions, teaching them how to use products, and helping them identify problems and improve results.

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