Instant beverages and foods are playing a more and more important role. 

Coffee, malt, milk, tea or other formulations based instant products are produced from a liquid extract by spray or freeze drying. Before the final instantiation process, the product extract has to be concentrated. Valuable aroma fractions can be separated from the evaporation vapours for further improvement of the product.

Aroma and nutrition quality and stability during shelf-live are major consumer criteria for an instant product. Heat impact negatively influences taste, taste stability and the content of nutrition important components. Also the solubility of powder-instant products can be negatively influenced by excessive heat. Short heat retention times and low temperatures are therefore the key parameters to keep a good quality level.

The sophisticated M&L design allows evaporation temperatures below 60 8C and minimal product residence times due to single pass process and defined product flow. Hygienic design of the apparatuses, the components and the piping system are the basis for optimum product quality and process efficiency.

Highly efficient concentration of extracts can be achieved with mechanical vapour recompression (MVR). This is the most efficient heat source available for evaporation processes. M&L is your partner for tailoring this process to your specific need.

As being experts in this product category, we are able to integrate also feed and outfeed handling with in our scope of supply. Aroma recovery, feed pre-warming and pasteurization, tank and valve arrangements for evaporator process integration and CIP-systems are balanced best for optimum energy and performance efficiency and product quality. Seamless integration of processes!

Finally waste water streams are possible to be separated with MVR driven falling film evaporators into condensate to be used as process water and a highly concentrated fraction that can be economically disposed or burned in a boiler co-combustion process.

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