Founded in 1931, Garelick Farms manufactures a wide variety of beverages including milk, flavored milk, cream, orange juice, iced tea, lemonade, and fruit punch. The company, which prides itself on its fresh, delicious dairy products, has grown from its humble beginnings (when two brothers home-delivered bottles of milk) to become part of Dean Foods with over sixteen hundred employees and four large production facilities.

Südzucker produces 5.4 million tons of sugar a year. Situated in Obrigheim, located in the Palatinate region, the Offstein Sugar Factory is one of the largest and oldest of nine sugar factories in Germany. Yearly, 1.4 to 1.8 million tons of sugar beets are processed. During the harvesting campaign (September to December), this is about 16,000 tons of beets daily - around the clock. Syrup and sugar are produced from the beets.

HP Hood LLC is one of the largest dairy operators in the United States with 13 plants across the country. It has been producing high-quality, delicious dairy products for more than 160 years.

ADI Systems first started providing wastewater treatment solutions to the Kellogg Company Pikeville Plant (formerly Mountaintop Baking) in Kimper, Kentucky, USA, in the late 1990s. In 1999–2000, ADI Systems was awarded a design/build contract to upgrade the wastewater treatment system due to production expansion at the plant. The upgrade included an ADI® hybrid anaerobic reactor followed by an ADI® sequencing batch reactor (SBR).

Due to an expansion in potato chip production, the snack food plant required additional wastewater treatment capacity. It needed to be able to meet strict discharge limits for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS), ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP) regulations.

Lone Star Dairy is a leading producer of value-added dairy ingredients derived from locally-sourced milk. While Lone Star Dairy was already enjoying the benefits of low-rate anaerobic digestion, production capacity was driving flows and loads beyond the capacity of their existing system. Upgrades were needed to remain compliant to protect the downstream publicly owned treatment works (POTW).

Settled in 1771 and incorporated into a borough in 1817, Milton is home to approximately 7,000 people in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. The municipally-owned Milton Regional Sewer Authority (MRSA) serves many residential customers, but a large portion of the MRSA’s wastewater treatment plant's influent comes from the manufacturing facilities of ConAgra Foods, the food giant that produces Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice, Andy Capp, LaChoy, and Gulden’s Mustard products.

A major American frozen food manufacturer with worldwide distribution required a cover solution for its wastewater treatment system that would reliably contain odors and retain heat. Xylem designed, fabricated, and installed a large biogas collection cover​ for the frozen food manufacturer’s on-site anaerobic digester.

Fast growing breweries can be faced with steep economic and environmental costs due to disposal of their spent process water. Stringent regulations regarding wastewater streams, corporate social responsibilities, and transportation costs have been driving increased investment in the wastewater process.

Warrnambool Cheese & Butter (WCB) has been producing dairy products for over 125 years, making it the oldest dairy processor in Australia. It produces a range of high-quality dairy products for domestic and export markets and has won several awards from the Dairy Industry Association of Australia.

Brewing high-quality craft beer is a challenge in any part of the country. In Texas, where water quality can vary as the climate whipsaws from drought to flood and back again, it can be especially challenging. Because with craft brewing, the quality begins with the water.

Richmond Dairies operates its production plant seven days a week, with wastewater volumes ranging anywhere from 20-180 m3/d (5,300-45,500 gpd). The company had been treating this wastewater through a dissolved air flotation (DAF) plant and discharging it to the sewer; however, the system was not meeting Richmond Dairies’ treatment needs.

Shearer’s Foods is committed to protecting the environment. It has made operational changes to do more with less—less water, less energy, less waste. Its production facilities are state-of-the-art, featuring modern equipment, processes, and systems. The company expected no less when it came to selecting a wastewater treatment solution.

Shanghai Xinlun Paper was upgrading its pulping and paper-making process. As this was taking place, new regulations came into effect that required the mill to invest in secondary wastewater treatment so it could meet stringent effluent limits of 100 mg/l chemical oxygen demand (COD), 30 mg/l biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and 200 mg/l total suspended solids (TSS).

Based in Bangkok, Thai Beverage Public Company Limited is Thailand's largest and one of Southeast Asia's largest beverage companies. It owns and distributes several significant brands, including Chang beer (the top-selling brand in Thailand), Mangkorn Thong and Sangsom rums.

The sugar company produces approximately 4,500,000 cwt. of sugar per year, resulting in high-strength wastewater that creates odors, especially during the company’s peak season in the spring and summer. The company was using a series of basins, such as ponds and ditches, to cool, equalize, settle, and digest the organic wastewater.

Stonyfield is a thriving yogurt business with a modern, sprawling plant in Londonderry, New Hampshire, USA. What began in 1983 as a two-person operation on a small farm has grown over the last three decades to introduce many new products, including yogurt drinks, frozen yogurt, and Greek yogurt.

The J.R. Simplot Company, commonly referred to as Simplot, is one of the largest privately held food and agribusiness companies. The company is headquartered in Boise, Idaho, USA, but it has operations around the globe, including Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, and Caldwell, Idaho, USA.

A producer of frozen concentrated and chilled citrus juices was in need of building their own wastewater treatment plant due to the publicly owned treatment works (POTW) facility operating at close to capacity. The juice manufacturer chose to take responsibility for their wastewater treatment by having a plant built to meet their requirements. 

The rapidly expanding cheese company’s wastewater treatment issues were limiting its ability to grow. Valley Queen ADI Systems, a leader in anaerobic treatment of dairy processing wastewater, was selected by Valley Queen Cheese Factory to design and build a system to treat its wastewater.

A Midwest university used Xylem wastewater ion exchange services to remove contaminants from a cooling loop, improving water quality, boosting system efficiency, and protecting sensitive nanotechnology research equipment.