Breakthrough in Beverage Production – Suntory Products Limited Collaborates with DuPont Tate & Lyle to Utilize a Renewable High-Performance Heat Transfer Fluid
Wilmington, Del., July 07, 2015 – Suntory Products Limited, in collaboration with DuPont Tate & Lyle, adopted a renewable heat transfer fluid based on Susterra® 1,3-propanediol in its Tennensui Hakushu plant in Japan. Susterra® propanediol offers food and beverage processing companies a high-performing, food safe glycol with excellent low-temperature performance that improves pumping efficiency.
Susterra® is certified 100 percent biobased by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, making it attractive for companies seeking to add renewable content to their products. A peer reviewed life cycle assessment (LCA) demonstrates that the production of biobased propanediol offers significant environmental benefits including up to 40 percent less greenhouse gas emissions and 40 percent less non-renewable energy used in production versus petroleum-based glycols.
Additionally, since Susterra® offers good viscosity even at low temperatures, using Susterra® in heat transfer fluid in food and beverage manufacturing equipment reduces the amount of electricity consumed by the equipment used to heat and cool the beverages during production.
“DuPont Tate & Lyle is pleased to offer Suntory Products Limited a glycol that offers high pumping efficiency at low temperatures and helps reduce the environmental footprint of the Tennensui Southern Alps Hakushu plant,” said Lirys Crawford, global marketing manager for DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products.
Suntory Beverage & Food manufactures and sells foods and beverages as a core company of the Suntory Group’s food and beverage business, operating business segments in Japan, Europe, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. On a daily basis, Suntory Beverage & Food considers what “delicious” means to consumers around the world and aims to develop a premium, unique beverage and food brand that will be loved everywhere. For more information on the company’s products, visit www.suntory.com.
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products is a joint venture between DuPont, a global science company, and Tate & Lyle, a world-leading renewable food and industrial ingredients company. DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products provides natural and renewably sourced ingredients that enhance product performance. For more information on the company’s products, visit www.duponttateandlyle.com.
Susterra® and the circle logo are registered trademarks of DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products Company LLC.
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