GERMANY: GEA has furnished Harmless, the effectively-regarded smoothie and juice brand, with the method technologies for the world’s 1st carbon-neutral juice manufacturing facility.
Found at the Rotterdam Food Hub, the new manufacturing facility is scheduled to open formally in spring 2022. It is made to develop up to 300 million litres of chilled juice beverages and smoothies each year
In the new-create task, GEA is liable for the method, refrigeration and heating technological know-how. Early involvement in the design and style organizing stage enabled the corporation to establish a lot of modern system improvements that substantially assist innocent on the route to achieving its climate aims.
Aiming to create a carbon neutral manufacturing unit, extracted heat is reused and upcycled with two sets of heat pumps to practical temperatures of 2300kW at 65°C and 2500kW at 90°C. Overall warmth need at these temperatures is produced from waste warmth from the refrigeration plant. The now minimized harmony of electrical power essential is offered by setting up photo voltaic panels and two wind turbines.
“Not only have we built-in the most useful resource-efficient technologies, we have also fully rethought the procedures as nicely as the heating and refrigeration methods,” said GEA CEO Stefan Klebert. Together with Innocent, we have pushed the envelope past standard beverage manufacturing observe.”
The challenge lately won the People’s Decision class at the European Heat Pump Association awards.