Munters Spotlights
Munters Spotlight is where we'll share our expertise, thoughts, and experiences. This is where you'll meet our experts, get insights into situations where the indoor climate matters even more than one would think, as well as our thoughts on new development within climate control.
In short: Munters Spotlight aims to cover interesting aspects of climate control in industrial processes, storage, and in other applications.
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Effectively Reducing Spread of Bacteria to Ensure Food Safety
Effectively reducing the spread of bacteria is a key concern in the food industry, and critical to ensure food safety. Moisture is a strong disseminator of bacteria, with higher humidity levels leading to increased bacterial growth. Munters dehumidification solutions have proven highly effective in reducing moisture, and thereby in reducing, or even removing, bacteria in food maunfacturing.
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7 June 2024
When Prices are Snowballing, Every Cocoa Bean Counts!
There is always a risk for some waste in confectionery production and in storage of confectionery ingredients. With the recent price increase of cocoa beans and other confectionery ingredients, reducing production waste is becoming critica. It may be difficult to pass the price increase on to the consumers? In a recent webinar, Martin Ginty, Market Intelligence Manager Food Production at Munters, discusses how climate control is key to reducing production waste, and thereby to controlling cost.
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29 May 2024
4 Reasons Why NOW is the Time to Consider a Cold Store Dehumidifier
Cold storage facilities commonly encounter the same challenge from frost. When left uncontrolled, these issues can result in dangerously slippery conditions, impacting on health and safety and posing a risk to product quality and integrity. So why not change the game and focus on the root cause of the problem?
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20 March 2024
How to Ensure Your Par-Baked Frozen Bread is Perfect also after Baking
Par-baking is a technique that allows bakers and industrial bakeries to partially bake bread, to conveniently complete the process at a later time. However, humidity and moisture present a risk to this process, to the quality and character of the bread producted. Read the Spotlight here.
23 February 2024
Why Humidity Control Will Protect both Your Packages and Your Products
Humidity affects basically all packaging materials – plastics, paper, metal, and even glass. While the wrapping is there to protect the product in the package from ambient conditions such as temperature and humidity, it becomes crucially important to give the package itself the best conditions. Read the Spotlight here.
20 December 2023
6 reasons why bakeries need humidity control
In the bakery industry, humidity can be a challenge. High humidity can ruin finished products, resulting in higher product waste, hygiene issues and production stoppages. Even in the most efficient bakeries, excess moisture can quickly impact production and product quality. Controlling relative humidity levels all year round is an absolute necessity to ensure the highest product quality. Read the Spotlight here.
10 November 2023
Unveiling the sweet solution: How dry air revolutionizes confectionery production
What goes on behind the scenes to ensure those hard candies, delectable chocolates, and jellied treats stay in perfect shape until they reach your eager hands? The secret lies in something as simple as the air they're surrounded by – or more precisely, the dryness of that air. Read the Spotlight here.
13 October 2023
Dehumidification and food safety
From raw materials in silos and conveying lines, through to packaging and storage of the finished product, there are many areas throughout food processing where the right indoor climate is essential. As sponsors of the Food Manufacture Food Safety briefing, we're looking at how dehumidification can improve safety in food processing plants. Read the Spotlight here.
18 September 2023
Why good humidity control matters in modern spray drying
Food, pharmaceutical, and other production processes dealing with powder production, utilize spray drying to ensure product quality and consistency. But spray drying requires stable humidity conditions to work at its premium. Read the Spotlight here.
29 August 2023
How to avoid Listeria in meat production
To guarantee food safety, good hygiene during food production is essential. Cleaning and disinfection play an important role, but also moisture control as water is the breeding ground for microorganisms and pathogens. Read the Spotlight here.
26 July 2023
Minimize risk of microorganisms in meat production facilities
Organisms that can only be seen through a microscope, microorganisms, can be found everywhere. Fungi, molds, yeasts, and bacteria are all examples of microorganisms. And meat is the food source with the highest risk for microbial growth. So what’s required to make your factory clean of microorganisms? Read the Spotlight here.
4 July 2023
The art of humidity control in meat processing and dry aging
High and fluctuating humidity levels in meat processing facilities, result in excess moisture that traditionally require labour and maintenance to control. Humidity control on the other hand, is proven to enhance quality, tenderness, and flavor. Here's a Munters Spotlight on the art of humidity control in meat processing and dry aging. Read the Spotlight here.
12 June 2023
The crucial role of humidity control in cold storage
When it comes to cold storage, ensuring optimal humidity control is of paramount importance. Failing to address this crucial factor can lead to a multitude of issues that can impact on operations both inside and outside the cold store. Ensure safety, hygiene, efficiency, and energy savings with dehumidification. Read the Spotlight here
5 June 2023
