The food and beverage industry is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world, covering a wide range of products from the processing of the grain to the pasteurization of milk and its by-products.
In the process, which is applied in a wide range of foods, such as milk, ice cream, beer, sausages and liquids, canned food is essential for the security of the consumer, as it has the goal of destroying pathogenic microorganisms of the promoters of the disease. This thermal processing of food involves the heating, the cooling, and the time of exposure, requiring the use of a cooling tower and water because of the heat that is generated.
In Brazil, there are more than 35 thousand companies operating in the food and beverage industry, being responsible for the generation of approximately 7.6 million direct and indirect jobs, according to the data of ABIA, turning over more than 750 billion dollars annually, and the world with its more than 1 billion people in the world, in the entire supply chain, from farming to business.