Schneider Electric

Sustainable Efficiency for Food and Beverage

Food and drink manufacturers in the UK face mounting pressure on every side: rising energy costs, ageing equipment, shifting consumer demand for healthier and more sustainable products, and increasingly complex, global supply chains. To stay competitive, businesses need manufacturing and operating processes that are agile, efficient, resilient and sustainable – at every level, from the factory floor to the wider enterprise.

Schneider Electric helps food and beverage businesses turn these challenges into a competitive advantage, combining automation and energy management with digital solutions across four key areas:

• Agile manufacturing – flexible, software-defined automation that helps producers respond quickly to changing market demands.
• Efficient facilities – smarter energy and resource management that reduces cost and environmental impact.
• Resilient supply chains – real-time data and modernised infrastructure that keep operations running through disruption.
• Holistic enterprise – unified solutions that connect the whole business, driving efficiency and sustainability at scale.

Our EcoStruxure™ platform, ProLeiT process control system and AVEVA industrial software are already helping food and drink manufacturers put this into practice worldwide:

• Fonterra used our power management solutions to scale up production by an additional 4.4 million litres of milk a day
• Evian reduced energy consumption by 34% while improving reliability and workforce safety
• Henkel cut energy use in its spray-drying process by up to 5% as part of its 2030 carbon neutrality plan.