Food Ingredients
No matter where you’re located, the type of climate you’re in, or the food ingredients you work with, Munters is fully equipped to deliver consistent and precise humidity control solutions that help you create superior products.
Disrupt humidity before it disrupts you
From whey and soy protein powders, flours and emulsifiers, to vitamins and minerals, humidity is a huge challenge in food ingredient processing and production.
Simply using heaters and coolers isn’t enough, as they only manage temperature, and not moisture in the air.
As food ingredients are hygroscopic in nature and vulnerable to uncontrolled humidity, keeping your manufacturing facility’s climate just right—not too damp or too dry—is critical to avoid product integrity issues like:
- High levels of scrap or production waste, hurting your bottom line.
- Heat-sensitive material degradation, leading to a breakdown of flavors and nutrients, in addition to altered appearances.
- Inconsistent particle sizes, affecting the final product shape, texture, and taste.
Prevent humidity. Protect your product.
How humidity ruins ingredients
With Munters dehumidification solutions, you can take humidity out of the equation all year round—from sweltering summers to freezing winters—to ensure ingredients in your facility remain consistent from beginning to end. This is a big deal, especially for hygroscopic ingredients like sugar and flour, where unchecked humidity results in stickiness and clumping.
Precision humidity control for premium-grade outputs
Mastering relative humidity levels for food ingredients is an absolute necessity to maintain and preserve product quality. You can accomplish this without excess heating or cooling, which helps maintain ideal flavor, color, and texture profiles. Our solutions are a smarter way to ensure consistent food ingredient particle sizes, avoid temperature-related product degradation, reduce the risk of microbial growth, and stay FDA-compliant.
Keeping operations running smoothly
Improper humidity control can cause ingredients to stick and clump in equipment, leading to higher product waste, hygiene issues, and production shutdowns. For you, this means increased costs due to downtime, scrapped product, and unplanned maintenance. Taking excess moisture out of ingredients begins with proven desiccant dehumidifiers from Munters, providing consistent humidity control performance, helping you to create superior products.
Explore our range of innovative humidity control solutions, purpose-built to meet your specific needs.
ICA Series - 600 - 40,000 CFM
Munters ICA is a state-of-the-art dehumidification system engineered for food and pharmaceutical applications. It combines advanced desiccant technology, robust construction, and intelligent system integration to deliver consistent performance and reliable, year-round operation.
- Full humidity and temperature control
- Highly configurable pre- and post-treatment modules
- Patented HoneyCombe® desiccant wheel design
- Double-wall insulated construction with no-through metal structure
- Clean-in-place (CIP) system with smooth surfaces and seamless panel joints
HCD Series - 600 - 12,000 CFM
Munters HCD is a versatile and cost-effective stand-alone desiccant dehumidifier. It can be enhanced with HCD Plus modules to provide efficient air filtration, precise temperature control, and advanced air mixing for food manufacturing and storage applications.
- Weather-tight construction for indoor or outdoor installation
- Optional pre- and post-treatment modules
- Patented HoneyCombe® wheel design
- Fully welded, strain-hardened aluminum casing
- Simple installation, operation, and maintenance
Expertise at your service
Built upon decades of experience in industrial humidity control, we’re fully equipped to deliver consistent and precise solutions tailored to your production requirements.
Because no matter where you’re located, the type of climate you’re in, or the equipment and ingredients you deal with, our team is equipped with the expertise and operational know-how to ensure that you achieve optimal performance from day one.
Our partnership with you is ongoing throughout the lifecycle of your equipment.