Plate heat exchanger for food products
Achieve precise temperature control in your processing line with this plate heat exchanger, ensuring optimal heating and cooling for diverse food and beverage products while maintaining rigorous hygiene standards.

Regulates Temperature for Hygienic Processing
The Tetra Pak® Plate Heat Exchanger is engineered for precise temperature regulation across various food and beverage applications. Featuring clip-on gaskets with a robust T-clip design, this exchanger ensures secure sealing and easy maintenance, preventing product cross-contamination. It supports continuous, high-speed operations, with capacities reaching up to 100,000 liters per hour. The unique plate geometry facilitates gentle processing and efficient heat transfer, reducing fouling and extending production runs. Ideal for dairy producers, beverage manufacturers, and food processors, it effectively handles liquid and slurry products such as yogurt, cream cheese, and fruit juices with pulp. Its bolted connections allow for easy customization and scalability, ensuring seamless integration into your existing production line. Designed for hygienic processing, the unit is available in materials that resist corrosion and comply with industry standards. Additionally, it boasts an eco-friendly design, minimizing energy consumption and supporting sustainable operations.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality with precise temperature regulation and gentle handling.
- Minimizes downtime through easy dismantling and cleaning, improving overall productivity.
- Increases operational efficiency by reducing energy consumption with optimized heat transfer.
- Adapts to various production needs with customizable and scalable design.
- Maintains stringent hygiene standards, ensuring safe food processing.
- Applications
- Beverages,Sauces,Soups,Nectar,Jams,Still drinks,Cheese,Plant-based products,Ice cream,Fruit preparations,Food products,Tomato products,Juice,Prepared foods,Dairy
- End products
- Vegetable broth,Hollandaise sauce,Tomato soup,Strawberry jam,Fruit juice with pulp,Parmesan cheese,Oat milk,Almond milk,Fruit nectar,Soy milk,Cream cheese,Tomato paste,Vanilla ice cream,Yogurt,Chocolate milk,Cottage cheese
- Steps before
- Pasteurization,Homogenization,Mixing,Blending
- Steps after
- Cooling,Filling,Packaging,Bottling,Inspection
- Input ingredients
- food products,low to high viscosity ingredients,fibres up to 5mm
- Output ingredients
- processed food products,heated food products
- Market info
- Tetra Pak is renowned for providing innovative packaging solutions, specializing in carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. It is esteemed for high-quality, sustainable, and efficient processing and packaging equipment on a global scale.
- Capacity
- Up to 100,000 l/h
- Application viscosity range
- Low to high viscosity
- Application fibre size
- Up to max 5mm
- Heating capability
- Energy efficient heating
- Gasket feature
- T-clip design
- Connection type
- Bolted connections
- Plate geometry design
- Tall and narrow
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Energy efficiency
- High
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Product flow distribution
- Even
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC
- Cleaning time
- Reduced
- Hygiene standards maintenance
- High
- Changeover flexibility
- High
- Maintenance frequency
- Low
- Plate geometry
- Tall,narrow shape with specific surface pattern
- Discharge method
- Designed for even product flow and distribution
- Compact footprint
- Optimized for space efficiency
- Control panel type
- Integrated control options
- Material
- Robust plate pressing technology
- Gasket type
- Clip-on gaskets with T-clip design
- Control panel type
- PLC / HMI
- Integration possibilities
- SCADA / MES integration
- CIP/SIP capability
- Yes
- Rebuild capability
- Adapt for different capacities or products
- Plate pressing technology
- Customizable for different applications