Grupo Jumex cooks juice premix with Steam Infusion
Grupo Jumex, based in Mexico City, is the largest producer of fruit juices, nectars and bottled drinks in Mexico. Catering for the Central and South American markets, they boast 10 brands with different flavours that target a large variety of demographics across the Americas.
Boosting production capacity
Grupo Jumex was launching a new brand, Mi Desayuno (My Breakfast), and the company was anticipating significant sales of the new drink. They needed to increase production and efficiency of the premix for the beverage to meet demand and to fully capitalise on the anticipated increase in sales. The previous system, which involved a time-consuming three-stage process to produce the beverage premix, needed to be replaced with a much faster, more efficient process.
The OAL team installed a Steam Infusion system with the capability to entrain powders. Major savings in processing time for the beverage came from the systems ability to entrain powders in-line, removing the need to pre-slurry starches, soya protein powder and vitamin mixes. The previous three-stage process was reduced to one stage, as Steam Infusion mixes, homogenises, activates and heats ingredients all at once.
The innovative design of the Steam Infusion Vaction Pump reduced the pre-mix production time by 95% to 3 minutes - transforming Grupo Jumex’s operations.
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“Steam Infusion has reduced the processing time of our pre-mix from 60 mins to 3 mins; astonishing! We have immediately ordered more Steam Infusion Vaction units for expansion work”