Krones, a renowned German manufacturer of packaging and bottling machines, has recently unveiled its new Process Technology Center in Germany. This facility is designed to provide customers with the opportunity to improve their products by generating ultra-small production batches that can optimize their recipes, processes, and parameters. With this technology center, Krones can support its customers in developing high-quality products that meet the global market’s flavor demands.
The company highlights that customers will benefit from this facility regardless of their product development journey. The facility showcases the effects of varying process parameters on different products. These results can go into refining and developing the company’s machines and lines further.
Divided into two sections, process technology and water design, the center offers clients with opportunities to fine-tune the flavor of their products. On the process technology side, clients can simulate the thermal effect of indirect and direct heating using the pilot UHT system. The facility is equipped with an array of systems such as flash pasteurization, deaeration, homogenization, and filling. Clients can also take advantage of Krones’ microbiological and chemical testing labs to evaluate their results in-house.
In the water design section, customers can adjust the flavor of water by adding the right amount of minerals and flavor compounds using carbonation, electrode-ionization, mineral dosing, deaeration, and filling. Additionally, customers can collaborate with Krones’ network of engineers in various food and process engineering disciplines to transform their ideas into real products.
This new facility is in line with Krones’ strategy to provide its clients with unmatched innovation in the food packaging industry. In 2018, Krones subsidiary, Steinecker, inaugurated a research brewery at its facility in Freising, allowing customers to create and test recipes for beer and plant-based beverages. Moreover, Krones acquired a 90% stake in US-based company, Ampco Pumps, which supplies pumps and other blending equipment to the food, beverage, dairy processing, personal care, and pharmaceuticals markets.
The new Process Technology Center is a monumental step for Krones in the food packaging industry. It offers customers the chance to take their product development to the next level, transforming ideas into real-world products.
