Diverclean Sonic – the technology transforming open plant cleaning

The Food Processing sector faces many challenges. Increasingly scarce resources, rising costs, supply chain issues, and growing customer sustainability expectations are testing operations to the limit.

Cleaning procedures have always incorporated lengthy soil removal rinse steps. Open Plant Cleaning (OPC) is often viewed as a competing combination of unavoidable necessity, as maintaining hygiene compliance and protecting against product contamination is critical for food safety, or as inflexible downtime based on outdated methods.

Diverclean Sonic is a revolutionary pre-cleaning step that transforms decades of traditional OPC practices. It reduces time-consuming pre-rinsing with rapid soil, helping to reduce production downtime and drive cleaning efficiency to deliver significant savings:

Time (Cleaning) – Up to 35% savings

Water and Wastewater – Up to 20% savings in each

Energy – Up to 20% savings in compressed air and temperature

Chemicals – Up to 20% savings

Diverclean Sonic is also highly effective at ambient temperatures, improving operator safety by reducing visibility issues through condensation and fogging, while minimizing overhead condensation-related downtime between production runs.

Rapid turnaround is essential, making time the golden parameter. With labour making up 65% of OPC costs, reducing cleaning time directly impacts efficiency and cost savings. Diverclean Sonic achieves its goals without impacting cleaning performance, sacrificing food safety, or by any trade-off with hygiene.

Diverclean Sonic is engineered to meet the specific demands of the industry, in particular for high soil processing plants, poultry processors, and fish processing plants, where it’s extremely effective in cleaning oily soils and deposits of protein, fat and tallow.

In the UK, two leading meat processors have experienced exceptional results by implementing the Diverclean Sonic Pre-Clean procedure. In both cases substantial time and resource savings have been achieved, whilst ATP swabbing following the complete cleaning process, consistently demonstrated superior performance compared to previous methods, which involved additional detergent and rinsing.

Meanwhile, a fish processing company looked to decrease cleaning time and improve the working environment (humidity was too high) at the start of production in its German-based North Sea Fish Processing Plant. Despite typically stubborn soils, Diverclean Sonic proved very effective in the removal of fat and oil without extensive pre-rinsing. The plant was also visibly cleaner after the detergent step compared with the existing detergent.

These consistent improvements in cleaning efficiency and effectiveness, reflect Diverclean Sonic’s ability to deliver outstanding hygiene standards, while significantly optimizing operational processes.

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