Scaling is commonly seen as mineral build-up in places with hard water, which has high levels of dissolved calcium and magnesium salts. Scaling can damage heating elements and reduce their efficiency or block valves and pipelines, causing breakdowns, the need for costly repairs and reduced flow rates. Scale can also affect water taste. Hard water can even make beverages appear cloudy.
Commercial foodservice
Diverse businesses, one vital resource: Water
Water quality that helps keep your equipment in service
Efficient equipment making superb foods and beverages is the foundation of your foodservice success. Reduce the corrosive effects, taste and smell of chlorine and chloramines, trap sediment and inhibit scale build-up to give your customers the excellence they expect. Businesses like yours around the world trust their water to us for:
• Efficient, effective solutions
• Consistent quality and service
• Systems tailored to your needs
• Space-saving, compact designs
• Quick and easy filter change-outs
• Fewer change-outs, lower replacement costs and less waste in select systems featuring Integrated Membrane Pre-Activated Carbon Technology (I.M.P.A.C.T.)
Coffee and tea that people crave
Water makes up 98% of the brews you serve to your customers, and it has a powerful effect on your product and your equipment. Keep making coffee that makes your customers come back with solutions from Solventum.
Espresso that’s impressive
Espresso beverages are an art that requires mastery of the ingredients and process, as well as elaborate equipment susceptible to scale. We can help you continue to serve espresso that excites and delights.
Ice for a clear, refreshing chill
Everything in your water ends up in your ice — and in your ice machine, where dissolved minerals can damage its efficiency and longevity. With our solutions, your ice starts as cleaner, clearer water.
Delightful dispensed drinks
Cold beverage machines dispense familiar brands, so ensure the taste of your water won’t affect the flavours your customers want. Our solutions reduce the taste and odour of chlorine and chloramine, as well as their corrosive effects.
Consistent combi-oven cooking
Combi-ovens and steamers boil water for cooking steam, which can leave deposits and cause damage, while chlorine can promote corrosion. Use our solutions for cleaner water and to keep your equipment cooking.
Multiple needs, one solution
Your business may have multiple kinds of equipment using water in different ways for your foods and beverages, each with different needs. We can help you keep things simple with a single system that serves them all.
Trusted by restaurateurs the world over: 3M™ High Flow Series Filter Systems
Corrosion, taste, smell, sediment, minerals and even microorganisms may be on your mind regarding your water. Our 3M high flow series filter system offers a range of products and features to address one or all of the challenges you may face.
Replacement filter options may feature Integrated Membrane Pre-Activated Carbon Technology ("I.M.P.A.C.T.") for extended cartridge life and economy. * Other important benefits include:
• Single-cartridge flow rates and capacities typically seen in systems having three or four conventional cartridges
• Up to 12-month cartridge life
• Fast and easy cartridge changes with our Sanitary Quick Change design (SQC)
• Direct or easily adaptable connections to existing plumbing lines. Certification to NSF Standard 53 for cyst reduction† (For select 3M high flow series products)
• Reduction of 99.99% of waterborne bacteria‡ (For select 3M high flow series products)
• Scale inhibition on select models
*Filters featuring the Integrated Membrane Pre-Activated Carbon Technology ("I.M.P.A.C.T.") media can clearly be identified by the icon on the product label.
†Based on the use of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts.
‡As demonstrated with 99.99% reduction of surrogate organism E. coli (ATCC 11229) and P. fluorescens (ATCC 49642) in manufacturer’s lab test.
Commercial foodservice filtration products
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Discover how and why you should improve your water quality: Watch Water 101
For your ice, coffee, beverages, equipment and more, learn how your water supply can affect what your customers think about your establishment. Across all your water-use applications, you can get efficient and reliable filter performance, easy maintenance, and consistent quality that customers can taste.
Frequently Asked Questions
Chlorine has long been used in water supplies to control infectious organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and cysts. Although low levels of chlorine are usually used, it has a characteristic and noticeable taste and odour that inevitably ends up in the beverages you serve.
Some water companies use chloramine to treat water rather than chlorine. Chloramine may provide better disinfection from source to tap, but it can also affect the taste of food and beverages. Importantly, chloramines can cause corrosion of metal, plastic, or rubber machine parts, resulting in malfunctions and costly repairs. Chloramine is more difficult to reduce through filtration than chlorine, and many filters are ineffective in reducing concentrations to levels low enough to protect your flavours and equipment.
There are several ways to treat scale, but some – such as acid cleaners – can also damage sensitive metal machine components. It is best to inhibit scale from building up in the first place, particularly in ice and brewed coffee applications. Our foodservice water filtration products with the abbreviation “S” indicate the product reduces scale, as do our 3M™ ScaleGard™ Pro Series and 3M™ ScaleGard™ Blend Series products for espresso applications, and 3M™ ScaleGard™ Reverse Osmosis products for steam, combi ovens, and espresso applications.
Sediment or insoluble particles in the water can affect the appearance of your beverage or ice and can impede the operation of your machinery. Particles can range from those that are clearly visible, such as clay, sand or rust, to organisms, such as bacteria or cysts, which are too small to be visible to the human eye. Visible particles can be unsightly in food and beverages, while microorganisms can affect taste and cause illness.
Sediment in your ice machine’s water can trap air, cause cloudy ice, and clog tubes and solenoid valves. Our foodservice water filtration products reduce sediment at different micron levels, with select products also reducing bacteria and cysts.
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