A number of good ideas and a new technology or two have crossed my desk lately in no particular order. So rather than wait for them to magically assemble themselves into a single-topic column, I’ve decided to present them here in the same manner that they arrived: in no particular order.
• On the new technology front, if your packaging operation includes bottling, keep an eye on a new sanitizing process from an Irish firm called Trustwater (www.trustwater.com). This is an electrochemical process that converts water and salt to produce two solution streams simultaneously. One is a high-pH detergent solution and the other a powerful sanitizer. These solutions are extremely effective and can replace all traditional chemical detergents and sanitizers used in beverage production. By enabling Viking Coca Cola of Minnesota to lower the amount of water used to produce their products, Viking is playing its part in helping Coca-Cola achieve its goal of a 20% water reduction by 2012. The Trustwater process was launched at Drinktec last September and the Viking Coca Cola installation is the first in North America.
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