Cip system for breweries
Optimize your brewing efficiency by integrating a comprehensive cleaning and sterilization system that reduces downtime and enhances product quality, allowing simultaneous operation of production and maintenance processes.

Cleans and Sterilizes Brewhouse Equipment Simultaneously
The CIP-STAR® System Brewhouse by GEA revolutionizes the cleaning process with its innovative automated Clean-in-Place (CIP) design, ensuring simultaneous cleaning and production. Leveraging mixproof valves, it effortlessly separates vessel groups, allowing continuous production while maintaining stringent hygiene and safety standards. Designed for breweries and beverage manufacturers, it supports liquid end-products like lagers, ales, and soft drinks.
This system facilitates a notable reduction in labor and cleaning agent costs, optimizing energy usage with less power consumption during operations. Equipped to minimize caustic wastewater, it’s engineered for efficient media consumption. Integration into existing production lines is seamless, enhancing operational capacity and throughput. With robust automatic operation, it suits high-speed, continuous use, while its modular design accommodates various brewery layouts, allowing flexible vessel cleaning and sterilization in real-time.
GEA’s engineering offers customization options, ensuring the system meets your specific production requirements and adheres to industry compliance standards. This results in maximal equipment utilization, reduced downtime, and maintained product safety, ultimately boosting overall productivity and efficiency.
Benefits
- Reduces labor costs with simultaneous production and cleaning operations.
- Cuts power consumption during cleaning processes.
- Minimizes cleaning agent usage, lowering operational expenses.
- Increases plant availability and production capacity.
- Ensures product safety for enhanced beer and beverage quality.
- Applications
- Food,Beverage,Beer
- End products
- Tonic water,Pilsner,Ipa,Lager,Ginger ale,Stout,Wheat beer,Soft drinks,Ale,Kombucha
- Steps before
- Malting,Mashing,Lautering,Boiling,Fermentation
- Steps after
- Fermentation,Maturation,Filtration,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- raw materials,water,detergents,brewing procedures
- Output ingredients
- cleaned vessels,cleaned pipes,beer
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Cycle time
- Reduction in cleaning time by at least 3 hours
- Automation
- Automatic cleaning in place (CIP) system
- Energy Efficiency
- Minimized primary energy consumption
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Capacity optimization
- Simultaneous production and cleaning
- Mixproof valves
- Ensures safe separation for vessels and pipes
- Power consumption
- Reduced during cleaning
- Chemical consumption
- Reduced usage of cleaning agents
- Automation level
- Automatic
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Simultaneous process and cleaning
- Energy efficiency
- Reduced power consumption
- Cleaning method
- Mixproof valves for safe separation
- Changeover time
- Reduced by at least 3 hours
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- System footprint
- Compact design for space efficiency
- Valve type
- Mixproof valves
- Tank material
- Stainless steel
- Automation level
- Fully automatic
- Pipe connections
- DIN standard
- Vessel arrangement
- Flexible group arrangement
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen / HMI
- Integration possibilities
- PLC / SCADA integration
- Mixproof valves
- Yes
- Configuration options
- Flexible vessel and pipe cleaning
- Upgrade options
- Local conditions and customer requirements