Food and beverage

Your challenges

Ensuring reliable water treatment while meeting strict environmental standards, including:

Reducing water intake / safe ingredient water: zero consumer health impact

Reduce the impact of water use on the environment from wells or municipalities but also safeguard the safest ingredient water to avoid any impact on consumers health.

Reducing discharge cost / meet upcoming regulations

Without adequate treatment, you mind be in the position to pay high cost to the local water authority for discharging untreated raw wastewater to the sewer. Or, upcoming regulations might force you to build a new treatment plant or expand your current treatment plant.

Reducing water cost and focus on water stewardship to meet sustainability goals

Reusing wastewater for process cleaning purposes and reusing process water from pasteurization lines and cooling water towers can help you meet your sustainability goals.

Missed opportunities to get more value out of your wastewater

There’s still a lot of value left in your wastewater. Recovering resources from your water can turn it into an energy source, heat source, or sell resources as fertilizer to turn cost into profit!

Meeting regulations / compliance

To ensure the continuity of your core operations you must meet environmental regulations related to water.

How is water used in the food and beverage industry?

Water is essential at every stage of food, beverage, and dairy production — not just as an ingredient, but as a driving force for hygiene, efficiency, and sustainability.

Drinking water as an ingredient

Clean, safe and reliable drinking water is a core ingredient in many products. We help producers meet strict quality and safety requirements by delivering trusted process water treatment solutions that ensure consistent taste, stability, and compliance.

Process water as cleaning agent and transport medium

Process water supports key operations — from rinsing equipment to moving raw materials through the production line. We design systems that optimize water use while maintaining hygiene, protecting product integrity and extending asset life.

Water and wastewater as a source of energy

Wastewater holds untapped potential. At NSI, we help turn organic waste or high COD levels (sugar) in the wastewater into renewable energy, such as biogas or recovered heat, reducing carbon emissions and cutting operational costs.

Water recycling and reuse

Reducing water footprint is no longer optional. We empower our clients to recycle and reuse water safely and effectively, meeting both environmental targets and operational needs. Together, we give water the value it deserves — and make every drop count.

To which food and beverage subindustries water treatment can be applied?

Based on your requirements and contract type (DBFMO), we select our in-house solutions based on our extensive (waste)water knowledge of the food and beverage industry.

Our reference base includes clients from multinational to local companies across the following industries:

Breweries, distilleries, and wineries
Soft drink and beverage producers
Convenience and food processing
Potato and crisps processing
Dairy processing
Edible oil processing
Meat and fish processing

Our concepts and systems are based on our broad experience and application knowledge within the global industry.

Our solutions

Based on your requirements and contract type (DBFMO), we select our inhouse technologies based on our extensive (waste)water knowledge of the food and beverage industry.

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Drinking water
Wastewater
Municipal

Activated carbon

Rainwater
Wastewater
PFAS
Drinking water
Micropollutants

To meet regulatory requirements, water treatment is evolving. Activated carbon, a natural and effective solution, eliminates micropollutants, pesticides and organic compounds. (...)

"“Drawing on global coverage, Nijhuis Saur Industries has been able to support multiple food and beverage clients with its in-house industry knowledge and experience – from ingredient water, to process water to wastewater treatment.” "

Nijhuis Saur Industries - Food and beverage water treatment experts