With the lack of rainfall in the heartlands causing grain futures to trend upward and water shortages on everybody’s mind, conserving and reusing water has been a major push for several food and beverage processors.

Food industry professionals in water and wastewater management may find this event helpful.

Food and beverage processors rank in the top three for industrial water usage.

The company also eliminated 61,000 tons of waste.

Of the six prestigious award winners, Frito-Lay was the only manufacturing plant.

Food and beverage companies are doing their part to cut energy and waste.

Attention to use of the humble hydrogen-oxygen molecule is producing sometimes-surprising operational improvements and cost savings at food plants.
 

Food and beverage manufacturers periodically have to remove their out-of-spec product from either the market or from getting to the market to ensure quality and safety for their customers. When this happens, the manufacturers often employ the services of a full-goods certified destruct company.

Efficiency was built into Frito-Lay’s Casa Grande plant a quarter-century ago, but the snack maker takes the facility’s energy- and water-conservation systems to a new level with near net zero.