GB Environmental acquires Kaiku Ltd to target the Food and Drink Industry

GB Environmental Ltd, the market leading technologically advanced manufacturers of UV treatment has recently acquired Kaiku Ltd.

Kaiku, which was established in 1999, specialises in the manufacture, sale, and technical support of products that monitor liquids and detect changes to the formulation. It is renowned for selling its unique process flow monitoring and management tool, the i-Pipe, worldwide.

Kaiku Process Solutions is a provider of whole process solutions to the food, beverage and process chemical industrial sectors, enabling freedom from microbial contamination, all day every day.

Ralph Coney, Sales and Marketing Director commented, “Kaiku has an excellent and well-invested manufacturing platform. This acquisition brings together two companies with unique and complementary skill sets, which will help food processors and drinks manufacturers to successfully monitor, disinfect and purify processes across the industry.”

He also added, “With Kaiku process solutions as a division of GB Environmental we can offer a more complete solution and will be now looking to expand our share of the market within the food and drink sector.”

GB has an impressive portfolio and track record, combining over 75 years of expertise in process engineering technology. GB Environmental is one of the world’s most technologically advanced manufacturers of UV treatment equipment, providing unbeatable non-chemical disinfection of water, air and surfaces.

Kaiku offers long-term process optimisation for food and drink processing lines and can offer a confidential consultancy service to help solve short-term issues, rooting out sources of inefficiency and devising methods for improvement. It also offers a range of consultancy packages to assist companies to maximise the benefits of Kaiku products. These include process interrogation, data gathering, data analysis and process recommendations.

Kaiku’s products are already well proven by multi-nationals both at home and overseas, across the range of process industries, and especially in the brewing, soft drinks and food sectors.

Its products and services include the world-renowned i-Pipe, which provides producers of soft drinks, soups, sauces and purees with continuous monitoring in detection of contamination, leading to enhanced process performance and improved quality.

This ‘intelligent’ pipe works by measuring electrical changes that occur in liquids as their formulation changes. It prevents batch losses by warning immediately when product is out of specification, cutting the need for laboratory testing by providing on-line product verification every few seconds and continuously polices the process to ensure consistent quality. It acts both as a QA tool and a way of automating the process

Capable of detecting variations in a formula down to the low parts per million in seconds, i-Pipe can provide significant increases in both yield and efficiency. Food and drinks producers can significantly reduce waste through more effective processing, which in turn leads to greater efficiency, reduced labour costs and increased output.

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