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Food and Beverage Market - Wine

Tradition blended with innovation… fruit cultivated with exacting detail… hand-selected oak barrels… complex flavors and aromas… winemaking skills passed down from generation to generation… the key ingredients in award winning wines. 3M Purification understands the demanding and complex nature of creating the best wines. We’ve worked for decades with winemakers around the world providing the filtration expertise required for absolute clarity and stability of fine wines.

3M Purification takes a systems approach to helping winemakers optimize their filtration. Just as a fine wine is more than the sum of its parts, 3M Purification works individually with the winemaker to design the optimum system for clarification, prefiltration and final filtration. The result is an integrated system that minimizes overall filtration costs while maintaining efficiency and reliability.

For more information regarding 3M Purification's offerings for wineries, please read: Filtration Systems for Wineries (PDF).

The following sections outline some of 3M Purification's solutions for various process steps:

Wine Clarification

Cellulose-based depth filters used by winemakers to help clarify wine and reduce microorganisms.

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Final Membrane Filtration

Microporous membrane filters that help control microorganisms in finished wine.

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Membrane Prefiltration

Filters that help to protect and extend the service life of microporous membrane final filters.

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DE Trap Filtration

Particle filters that help capture stray diatomaceous earth (DE) fines in wine where DE filters are used.

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Air & Gas Filtration

Filtration of air and gas used in winemaking.

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Water Filtration

Filters that help control particulate and microorganisms in water used in the winery.

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Rapid Hygiene Monitoring

Monitor biological contamination on surfaces and in water in real time.

Easily implemented into your hygiene monitoring and HACCP programs, the 3M™ Clean-Trace™ ATP and Protein Tests offer rapid and reliable solutions to monitor biological contamination on surfaces and in water in real time.

Effective environmental hygiene management helps reduce levels of contamination in finished products, leading to improved quality, fewer batch rejections and lower risk of product recall. The high sensitivity and repeatability of the 3M™ Clean-Trace™ Surface ATP Test, coupled with the powerful data trending software of the 3M™ Clean-Trace™ NG Luminometer, allow you to make sound decisions that can save your business time and money.

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Microbiological Testing of Water

Sample-ready plates that replace conventional agar, Petri dishes, media pads, and disposable filter funnels used in the microbial testing of water.

The beverage industry strives to offer safe products to the public that have a long shelf life with decreased chemical preservatives. This balance is very difficult to manage due to pH and high sugar levels which make the beverages susceptible to yeast and mold. Monitoring microbial conditions throughout the production cycle is critical to the control of contamination. Testing in process equipment as well as final products is the most effective measure to control the quality of the final beverage.

Our extensive line of monitoring and testing solutions is designed to help you maximize accuracy, consistency and efficiency. All products are supported by worldwide sales and technical services second to none.

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Filter Housings

A wide range of filter housings to accommodate membrane filters, lenticular-style depth filters, and utility filters.

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