Xenos Aseptic beverage systems chosen for FOOD BOWL Innovation centre

Located in Auckland, the Manukau Food Innovation Centre, called the ‘Food Bowl’ is a 2000 sqm export certified purpose built centre that supports food manufacturers in the development and testing of their products for commercialisation, particularly the FMCG sector. The NZ$18 million centre was designed to assist smaller companies who wanted to commercialise products but did not have the resources available to do so and to boost the New Zealand food market economy.

The Xenos X500PP is a pilot plant filler that is used for a variety of products from the aseptic filling of milks and juices to pasteurised milks and hot fill juices.

It has a speed of up to 500 bottles per hour and can handle plastic & glass bottles, covering a range of bottle sizes.

The aseptic bottling system steams and dilutes the bottles in hydrogen peroxide and then exposes them to UV light. The combined effect of the dilute hydrogen peroxide and the UV light achieves an extremely effective sterilisation process in a short time period. The Xenos aseptic bottling system is popular among beverage producers world wide as the process eliminates the need for preservatives, caters for a range of bottle containers and provides a hygienic, long-life product.

The ‘Food Bowl’ installed UHT/Pasteuriser is connected to the filler and runs at a speed of 150 Litres per hour and can process a wide range of beverage types as it has a broad temperature capacity from 72ºC for milk to 142ºC for other beverage products.