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— Food & beverage application

Optical measurements for color, process transitions and emulsions.

Color. Process transitions. Emulsions.

Choose the measurement based on the process challenge — dedicated color and absorbance with IC-COLOR™, full-spectrum CIP and product-changeover monitoring with IC-SPECTRO™, or particle and droplet characterization with IC-PARTICLE™.

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IC-COLOR™
Color & absorbance
IC-SPECTRO™
CIP & product changeover
IC-PARTICLE™
Emulsions · Available 2027
Jump toColor & brewingCIP & changeoverEmulsions
— Three measurement paths

Three measurement challenges. Three product paths.

Color & absorbance

IC-COLOR™

Dedicated color measurements in dark, concentrated, hazy or turbid beverages.

Beer color · Wort color · Dark beverages · Concentrates · Syrups

High absorbance + scattering handling + reduced sample preparation.

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CIP & product changeover

IC-SPECTRO™

Follow spectral changes through cleaning cycles and product transitions.

CIP phase monitoring · Product / water transitions · Cleaning endpoint · Process fingerprint

Full-spectrum process information rather than one single optical value.

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Emulsions

IC-PARTICLE™

Characterize particle and droplet size in dairy and food emulsions.

Dairy emulsions · Fat globule size · Homogenization · Formulation development

Benchtop and Online particle sizing with flexible sample handling.

Available 2027
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— Color & absorbance

Dark beverages, beer, wort and concentrates.

Conventional photometry may require dilution or short-path cells when absorbance is too high, and turbidity or haze can add scattering error on top of that. IC-COLOR™ addresses both — the same structured-illumination and Instant Clarity™ approach used for sugar color, configured at 430 nm for brewing color applications where appropriately calibrated and validated.

BREWING
  • +Beer & wort color, including dark beer
  • +430 nm brewing color application
  • +EBC/SRM-type color output where appropriately calibrated and validated
DARK BEVERAGES
  • +Dark / cola-type soft drinks
  • +Concentrated beverage syrups
  • +Other strongly colored process streams

In a brewery, IC-COLOR™ can address product color while IC-SPECTRO™ targets cleaning and product-transition monitoring — two instruments covering two distinct parts of the same process.

IC-COLOR™ reports ICUMSA-equivalent or EBC/SRM-type values; it does not replace certified ICUMSA, EBC or ASBC laboratory methods for regulatory or certification purposes without an application-specific validation context. Not every beverage matrix is automatically measurable — suitability is confirmed during sample evaluation.

— CIP & product changeover

See cleaning and product transitions as they happen.

IC-SPECTRO™ uses full spectral shape and turbidity channels to distinguish chemistry, product carry-over and process-state changes during CIP cycles and product changeover — instead of a single turbidity number that goes off-scale the moment the line gets busy. IC-SPECTRO™ directly provides UV-Vis spectral information, spectral shape, wavelength-specific absorbance and scattering information; application-specific models then derive process state, CIP phase, organic-load surrogates and product fingerprints from that spectrum.

Product changeover

Product-to-water transitions · water-to-product transitions · product A → product B · identifying the transition endpoint · residual product / carry-over · reducing unnecessary flushing where validated · process fingerprint changes

FIXED-TIME CYCLES & SINGLE-VALUE TURBIDITY
  • —Grab samples lag well behind the phase actually running
  • —A single turbidity number can't separate chemistry from carry-over
  • —Fixed cycle times waste water/chemistry or risk an early cutover
IC-SPECTRO™ ACROSS THE CYCLE
  • +Full spectral shape separates cleaning chemistry from product carry-over
  • +Independent scattering channel adds particle/turbidity context
  • +Continuous read supports phase-based cutover instead of a fixed timer
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— Emulsions

See how droplet size changes through the process.

Food and dairy emulsions are a strategically important measurement area — droplet and fat-globule size influence texture, formulation and process consistency throughout production. IC-PARTICLE™ supports homogenization tracking, formulation comparison, batch consistency checks and process-development trends.

Particle size is one input to formulation and stability development work — it does not alone establish long-term emulsion stability.

Strong agreement with laser diffraction.

Across 90 prepared dairy-emulsion samples, IC-PARTICLE™ D[5,3] fat-globule size measurements tracked a Malvern Mastersizer 3000 laser-diffraction reference.

R = 0.978
vs. Mastersizer 3000
0.0255 µm
SD vs. reference
±3.5 nm
Repeatability
90 samples
15 s interval
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Diluted milk samples with optional casein dissociation, measured using the benchtop-format configuration — not a claim of direct, undiluted, inline milk measurement. IC-PARTICLE™ Benchtop and Online systems are available during 2027.

What do you need to measure in your process?

Color, CIP, product changeover or emulsion size — tell us the sample and process problem, and we can help identify the right measurement approach.

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