Vegan was yesterday
…today the trends in the food industry are circular food, new glocal or snacking. The focus is increasingly on plant-based, organically produced and unprocessed food – a welcome development. However, this has a significant impact on the spatial environments in which some of our food is produced and packaged: cleanrooms. In its Food Report 2025, the Zukunftsinstitut even assigns cleanrooms ‘a key role’ in this context.
Why? Because current food trends place very specific demands on safety, quality and hygiene standards in cleanrooms. And these need to be met.
Two examples:
- Plant-based products: They are increasingly being used as plant-based alternatives for meat and fish products. During processing, they require special temperature and moisture management, and complex cleaning processes are used to remove residues.
- Circular food trend: Waste products from processing (e.g. peelings, seeds, pomace) are fed directly back into the cycle and utilised as a valuable food resource. This requires a separate hygiene management system and complex integrated storage options.
The food industry is responding to this f.e. with even stricter cleanliness standards, the integration of automated cleaning systems and monitoring technologies in its cleanrooms and an increasing demand for modular and therefore flexible cleanroom systems. This is a trend that can also be observed in numerous other industries.
Source: reinraum aktuell 2-2025
Published: February 2025