Improving energy efficiency in the food and beverage industry

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Improving energy efficiency in the food and beverage industry
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Moving your animal feed business from ingredients to nutrition

ABB Solutions

Moving your animal feed business from ingredients to nutrition
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Flexible and sustainable dairy production

ABB general purpose drives

Flexible and sustainable dairy production
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Drives and PLCs for Food and Beverage

Each day you face the demands of tight delivery times, high quality standards and safety. You also need to operate efficiently, even 24/7.

Everything counts. We understand these needs. Our drives and PLCs help you run your food and beverage applications, from raw material handling, to processing and conveying, to packing and storage, without compromising on the standards you demand.


 

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Learn about our solutions from Farm to Fork

Poultry
Moving your poultry business from farm to fork
Dairy
Moving your dairy business from farm to fork
Aquaculture
Moving your aquaculture business from farm to fork
Greenhouses
Moving your greenhouse business from farm to fork
Bakeries
Moving your bakery business from farm to fork
Breweries
Moving your brewery business from farm to fork
Animal feed
Moving your animal feed business from farm to fork
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Edible oil
Moving your edible oil business from farm to fork

Highlights

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A breakthrough in the cold storage industry with ABB’s solar pump drives
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Sustainable solar pumping: how drives put the sun to work
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MPS is making egg farming more sustainable, supported by ABB’s drives technology
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Expanding irrigation hours to cultivate pistachios using the ACQ80 solar pump drive
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Alternative protein: powering up energy-efficient, reliable production
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Powering poultry farms: How variable speed drives enhance efficiency and welfare
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Eisele’s pumps deliver the highest efficiency with ABB drives and IE5 motors for the agriculture sector
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ABB Ability™ Mobile Connect helps PTTS bring value and peace of mind to Indonesian customers
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ABB drives enable record animal feed production levels and energy savings for Red Range Stock Supplements
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ABB drives keep Cakebread Cellars cool
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The Problem-Solving Powers of Variable Speed Drives
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Baking smarter, not harder with ABB drives, motors and PLCs
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Ensuring efficient performance of industrial refrigeration systems to avoid food waste with PLC and drives
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Demand for edible oils increases as biofuel industry grows
Success story
Drives technology behind a perfect cup of coffee
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Driving the greenhouse industry to sustainable growth with ABB Drives, Motors and PLC's
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Lowering energy consumption in the sugar industry with motor and drive technology
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Animal feed - energy efficient technology for a vital food segment
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Increasing sustainability, reliability and safety with ABB solutions from farm to fork
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ABB drives and motors help increase sustainable aquaculture in Chile
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ABB drives help brew good beer
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Sustainability, operating economy and reliability of cooling and refrigeration in Food and Beverage
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Technology Enables Sustainable Food Production and Processing at Swedish Farm
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Dairy - Boosting productivity, reliability and energy efficiency
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Ventilation boosts poultry productivity
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Sustainable operation of machinery in food and beverage plants with Drives and SynRM motors
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Energy efficient and reliable operation of cooling compressors in food and beverage plants with Drives and SynRM motors
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Sustainable operation of pumps in food and beverage plants with Drives and SynRM motors
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Effective ventilation boosts safety, productivity and sustainability in poultry farming
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The energy of chocolate
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ABB motors and variable speed drives keep chickens cool in Mexico while saving energy
Whitepaper and Expert video
Improving energy efficiency in the food and beverage industry
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When bubbles don't bring cheer
Success story
ABB’s ultra-low harmonic drive helps one of Australia’s largest almond growers reduce electricity demands in processing operations by 15%
Article
How drives and motors can unlock the productivity potential in aquaculture farming
Success story
Reliable and consistent egg production in China with ABB drives
Animation
Mitigating cavitation in F&B with ABB drives for reliable and efficient pump operation
Video
Food and beverage production with variable speed drives
Success story
Producing high quality fish in a sustainable way with ABB VSD's
Industry brochure
Get the Aquaculture brochure - Boosting productivity and enhancing sustainability for a more resilient industry
Industry brochure
Get the Poultry farming brochure - Boosting safety, productivity and sustainability - from egg to broiler production
Website
ABB's interactive food and beverage landscapes are available online. Click to find out more
Success story
Ensure energy efficient operation at the world’s biggest beet sugar factory
Article
How Can A Direct Drive Design Optimize Cooling Tower Performance?

Article
Success story
Campbell Australasia cuts costs with SynRM and drive package.
Article
Driving energy-efficient refrigeration
Article
Energy efficient plant - unlocking energy saving potential
Brochure
Agriculture - Boosting efficiency, sustainability and productivity
White paper
AI made simple - Turning intelligence into action in the F&B industry
Case story
The Nordzucker AG saves energy by using ABB drives to control batch centrifuges
Case story
Beverage cooling gets energy and cost benefits, supported by ABB drives
White paper
A taste of the future - Understanding what's driving Food & Beverage in 2020 and beyond
White paper
Efficient refrigeration control: Reducing operating costs and CO₂ emissions using AC drives
Brochure
Efficient operation of sanitary pumps in hygienic applications
Brochure
Brewery production - Boosting safety, efficiency and sustainability
Press release
ABB delivers safety and reliability for AGRANA’s new wheat starch plant
External article
Starting a sweet revolution in productivity
Article
Hidden contamination costs

Understanding how every aspect of motors can have a huge impact on production line turnover.
Brochure
Sugar production - Boosting reliability and cost efficiency
Brochure
Grains and Ingredients handling - Boosting productivity, safety and energy efficiency
Reference case
Cono sur implements innovative irrigation system
Brochure
Meat, poultry and seafood production - Improving safety, efficiency and sustainability
Reference case
ABB technology runs refrigeration system at Switzerland's largest bakery
Video
Switzerland’s largest bakery reduces carbon emissions with ABB drives and motors
Video
ABB Softstarters - the milk production

How can ABB softstarters improve production efficiency?
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Dairy production - Boosting productivity, reliability and energy efficiency
Sugar Journal
Efficient production restored for Mehran sugar mills

Baked goods production - Boosting productivity, safety and reliability

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ABB to ensure reliability for world’s third largest sugar producer

Article

ABB Ability™ based technologies are key ingredients in new greenfield sugar mill and biomass power plant of Mitr Phol Group in Thailand

Food Manufacture Magazine: Upping the ante in automation

Feature article

 Companies that only a few years ago might have baulked at the idea of automating key elements of their production, are now biting the bullet.

Milling and Grain Magazine: How to reduce power consumption in an animal feed plant by more than half

Video

Since May 2011, UFA's poultry feed mill built in 1965 has been one of only a few unmanned feed mills in the world. The mill runs from 9pm until 5am without any operating personnel.

Are you wasting energy when you could be selling it?

Article

Sugar companies can make as much as $1 million per year on selling surplus energy to the grid. Read how.

Food Navigator: Benefits of digitalization as Tate & Lyle sees demand for oats increase tenfold

Feature article

Tate & Lyle is celebrating the first anniversary of its remodelled oat processing plant in Sweden after seeing demand for oats rise tenfold.

Food and Drink Technology Magazine: Drive safely

Feature article

In addition to precise process control and significantly improved energy efficiency, drives help machinery manufacturers meet the required safety standards in the food and beverage industry.

IEN Europe: Variable Speed Drives for Sensorless Detection of Pump Cavitation

Feature article

Pump cavitation is an issue known to anybody working with fluid dynamics. An algorithm built into variable speed drives can detect and eliminate the problem.

EnergySave calculator

Calculator

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What is a drive?

Article

Electric motors play a very important role in our everyday businesses and lives. They move and run basically everything we need for business or pleasure. Read more on our webpage about how variable speed drives work

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Success stories

Aquaculture: Calle Calle river in Valdivia Chile
ABB drives and motors help increase sustainable aquaculture in Chile
Sugar: Südzucker group, Belgium
Sweetening the world through energy efficiency
Brewery: Tröegs Independent Brewing, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
ABB drives help brew good beer
Bakery: Coop Group, Switzerland
ABB technology runs refrigeration system at Switzerland's largest bakery
Agriculture: Cono sur, Chile
Cono sur implements innovative irrigation system
Ingredients: Tate & Lyle, Sweden
ABB helps Tate & Lyle grow capacity more than tenfold in four years
Boilers in Food and Beverage: Byworth Boilers, UK
OEM standardises using ABB drive to improve boiler range efficiency
Meat: Rügenwalder Mühle, Germany
ABB helped meat company to reduce energy on smoking good sausages
Feed mill: UFA and Bühler, Switzerland
Improving power efficiency and cutting cost
Bakery: The Village Bakery, UK
The Village Bakery saves £20,000 a year with ABB drives
Sugar: Mehran sugar mills, Pakistan
ABB eliminates centrifuge downtime at Mehran Sugar Mills in record time
Sugar: Mirpurkhas sugar mills, Pakistan
Mirpurkhas sugar mills in Pakistan reduced cane-crusher energy use by over 40 percent
Sugar: Santa Matilde sugar mills, Honduras
Santa Matilde sells excess electricity for $1 million annually
Sugar: Al Khaleej Sugar, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
ABB technology helps to save energy at world’s largest stand alone sugar refinery Al Khaleej, UAE
Malt: Bairds Malt, UK
Malt producer raises glass to improved productivity with ABB drive
Meat: Cherry Valley Farms, UK
ABB drives save £25,000 on energy at duck processing plant
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