(1) High speed, high quality, high precision, and large-scale development. In order to adapt to the large-scale production of the beverage industry and obtain the best economic benefits, beverage equipment is increasingly tending to be large-scale. For example, the filling speed of carbonated beverage filling equipment can reach up to 2000 cans/min. The number of filling valves of the filling equipment of the top companies such as Germany's H&K, SEN, and KRONES reaches 165, 144, and 178 respectively. The number of filling valves of non-carbonated beverage equipment is 50-100, and the filling speed can reach up to 1500 cans/min.
(2) The equipment is multifunctional and can be used for filling and sealing various liquids and various bottle types. It can be used for hot filling of tea drinks, coffee drinks, soy milk drinks, juice drinks and other beverages, as well as filling of glass bottles and PET bottles.
(3) Mechatronics is the most important trend in the current development of beverage machinery and equipment. Programmable controllers are widely used in the control systems of beverage machinery and equipment. Large-scale equipment uses computer control, self-diagnosis of faults, and signal display. The production equipment has high technical content and high reliability, and the entire production line has a high level of automatic control and high efficiency. The online detection device and metering device are complete and can automatically detect various parameters and measure accurately. High-tech products integrating machinery, electricity, gas, light, and magnetism are constantly emerging. The reliability of beverage packaging equipment and the coordination of the packaging line directly affect the work efficiency, production cost and product quality of the entire production line.
(4) Aseptic cold filling technology: Aseptic cold filling technology is increasingly being used in beverage production. Aseptic cold filling equipment originated in the UK and then spread to the United States and European countries. It is mainly used in the juice industry and has entered the dairy and other beverage filling markets in the past decade.
(5) CIP cleaning system: CIP is short for clean in place or in-place cleaning. It is defined as a method of cleaning the food contact surface of a device by applying a high-temperature, high-concentration cleaning solution to the device without disassembling or moving the device.
