Ecolab launches Ecolab CIP IQ and adds partnership with 4T2 Sensors
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Ecolab introduced Ecolab CIP IQ at Drinktec this year, which is a smart, AI-enhanced clean-in-place (CIP) digital solution designed to help food and beverage companies maximise product quality and food safety, while reducing water usage and increasing production capacity, the company says. It delivers real-time insights for dairy and beverage manufacturers.
As part of Ecolab CIP IQ, Ecolab is partnering with 4T2 Sensors and its fluid sensing technology. By integrating this technology into 3D TRASAR sensors, Ecolab is unlocking new levels of operational efficiency and resource optimisation to a water-intensive industry: food and beverage production. CIP IQ transforms traditional CIP, a time-intensive but essential process for ensuring quality and food safety, into a smart, data-driven system that can drive 15% more efficiency and higher capacity with 20% water reduction, the companies note.
“The strategic partnership between Ecolab and 4T2 Sensors will not only improve the water footprint of flow industries, such as dairy and beverages,” said Nicolas Granucci, executive vice president and general manager, Global Food and Beverage. “It also enables our customers to do more with the resources – including opening capacity to make more of their quality products.”
Dedicated to helping industries gain deeper insights into their fluid processes to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and support sustainable manufacturing, 4T2 Sensors has developed patented impedance sensing technology that electrically fingerprints fluids in real time. When this is paired with CIP IQ, manufacturers can dynamically optimise the duration of each individual CIP process based on the type of fluid present in the system.
For 4T2 Sensors, partnering with Ecolab means both companies can support one another with the mutual goal of increasing sustainability worldwide. With this linkup, Ecolab holds an exclusive license in the food and beverage industry for 4T2 Sensors’ CIP optimisation and fluid quality monitoring technology.
