Emerging consumer trends, competitiveness, the drive to reduce carbon and use more sustainable solutions, the integration of industrial automation and the need to remain compliant within local regulatory frameworks, are just some of the challenges facing food and beverage manufacturers.
Norgren is a collaborative solutions partner that addresses these challenges, and understands the food and beverage manufacturing industry's key issues. Our customizable solutions are designed to optimize energy consumption and enhance system reliability while delivering robust performance.
We prioritize hygienic design and offer lifecycle cost benefits, making us the ideal partner for large scale enterprises, start-ups, and small food and beverage manufacturers. With innovative engineering expertise, Norgren delivers practical and strategic solutions that drive business resilience. With an unrivalled heritage, innovative engineering expertise, bespoke, quality-led, intelligent, and adaptable products and systems, Norgren is ideally placed to deliver tangible results that make a difference.
The following application areas demonstrate Norgren’s central contribution to the food and beverage sector, including the varied needs of dairy, food, and protein processing.
PET Bottling
Patented plastic piston technology and valve positioning expertise sit at the heart of our role within the PET sector. The compact designs of blowing blocks improve productivity, whilst air supply units and air recovery systems offer large flows, deliver accuracy, and further increase system reliability.
Beverage Dispense
From fluid control and pressure management solutions providing essential support for the beverage dispensing industry, to valves with a proven track record of consistent control and accuracy over cold and hot water, steam, or syrups, and pressure regulators providing precise CO2 and nitrogen carbonation.
Food Processing and Packaging
With applications across dairy, meat processing, sorting and packaging, our innovative materials and technologies offer a range of standard and hygienic design solutions to support safe food processing production and associated packaging needs. These include valve terminals; nitrogen separation solutions; pressure switches and sensors; air filtration and a range of corrosion-resistant stainless-steel products.
Dairy Production
From automated milking systems, cluster cleaning, scraper systems and milk processing including pasteurizing, filling and packaging, our extensive range of tried and tested solutions which includes robust process valves and pneumatic cylinders provide the increased reliability and enhanced safety sought by the sector.
Continuous Inkjet Printing
Technology for fluid circuits supports the role of printers and food labelling applications and is already specified by many leading CIJ and DOD printer brands. Here, our adaptable technology, within fluid circuits components, offers high durability when having to manage aggressive solvents and inks. This leads to lifecycle cost benefits and proven operational efficiencies.
Future Food
Driven by the global challenges affecting the sustainability of current agricultural practices and food demand, the future of food will see an increased need for precise, intelligent, and robust flow control solutions for a range of demanding and innovative applications.
Norgren is supporting the transition to innovative and sustainable food sources by providing intelligent and customized valves and controls suitable for the creation of alternative proteins via cell culture and precision fermentation processes. We excel at the precise control and monitoring, stringent sanitary requirements, and integrated automation that these processes demand. Norgren delivers engineered flow technologies that meet rapidly evolving demands for customized and scalable solutions.
Setting the standard, with globally valid approvals and certifications.
Delivering expertise, solutions and value to the food and beverage industry. Whether it’s FDA-Compliant materials or solutions for ATEX environments, our intimate knowledge of supplying components and solutions for applications in the food, splash and non-food zones, helps ensure your system meets relevant regional and international standards, and codes of practice. And because we are committed to providing unrivalled quality, our products have global approvals and certifications such as NSF 169, UL 429, EG No. 1935/2004 and IEC 60335-1.
Expertise
Left Hand Brewing Company Case Study
The space-saving Norgren IVAC pneumatic cylinder helps KHS meet the requirements of Left Hand Brewing Company, Longmont Colorado.
Miniature Solenoid Valve Case Study
We are the world’s leading supplier of miniature solenoid valves for Continuous Inkjet (CIJ) printing. Many of the world’s leading CIJ printer brands use Norgren technology within their fluid circuits, due to their high durability and suitability for aggressive solvents and inks.
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