Most bottling problems start with the water. We size the treatment train from your raw water analysis — sand and carbon filtration, softening, reverse osmosis or ultrafiltration, then ozone or UV for final sterilisation — with storage tanks and CIP to match the line. Send us a water analysis and your target capacity, and we will propose the train.
Everything starts with a raw water analysis. Hardness, total dissolved solids, iron and manganese, alkalinity, turbidity and bacteriological load decide which stages you actually need — a train built for one water source can be wrong for another 40 km away. Reverse osmosis is sized from the feed TDS, the water temperature and the recovery you want: a higher recovery means fewer litres of reject water but a higher scaling risk, which is why antiscalant dosing and a softener upstream belong in the design rather than on the options list.
Sterilisation is the last stage and the one most often undersized. Ozone is dosed into a contact or storage tank and needs a controlled residual at the filling point; UV is normally placed immediately before the filler so nothing can grow between treatment and bottling. Storage tanks deserve the same attention as the treatment itself — a sealed tank with a breather filter and a recirculation loop keeps water clean, while an open tank undoes most of the work done upstream. Finally, ask how the plant will be cleaned: a CIP circuit with properly sloped pipework and no dead legs is what keeps microbiological counts stable over years, not just on commissioning day.