A soft drink is a drink that usually contains carbonated water, a sweetener, and a natural or artificial flavouring. Soft drink production is a detailed process that involves infusing water with a number of ingredients such as sugar, essences and even carbon dioxide to carbonate the drinks. The manufacturing process also requires the final product to be filled into the correct packaging, which could be a bottle. Soft drink production process as followed: water treatment, syrup preparation, syrup mixing, chilling and carbonation, bottle filling and capping, labelling, batch coding and shrink wrapping.
Mixing Equipment
Water filtration is an important stage in the beverage production process to ensure that the water used to make the drinks is treated and cleansed to meet quality-control standards. Manufacturers use filtration equipment to filter the water and test that it meets the requisite purity percentages. The water is then piped into large stainless steel mixing tanks where it is mixed with the other ingredients use to manufacture the soft drinks such as sugar and flavor. In addition, drinks are carbonated by adding carbon dioxide and cooling the resultant mixture in ammonia-based refrigeration systems.