A CIP truck answers a specific problem: several tanks, a filler, and a run of piping that all need caustic, acid, and rinse cycles, but no dedicated clean-in-place room. We build these as a mobile skid — welded stainless frame, casters or forklift pockets, quick-couple connections — so one unit can serve a batching area in the morning and a filler circuit in the afternoon.

How a cycle runs

Pre-rinse, caustic wash at temperature, intermediate rinse, acid wash where the line demands it, final rinse, and often a sanitizing step. The supply pump pushes solution through the circuit; the return pump or a balance line brings it back to the tank. Temperature, flow, conductivity, and level are what tell the operator the cycle actually worked — a wash that never hit 75 °C or 1.5 m/s inside the pipe is a wasted hour.

Choosing tank configuration

Single-tank units suit smaller plants running caustic plus rinse. Two- and three-tank skids separate caustic, acid, and rinse water so chemistry is not dumped between steps; four-tank designs add a recovery or sanitant vessel. Capacity follows circuit volume — piping, exchanger, and vessel hold-up — not tank size alone. We size pumps against the pressure drop of the longest loop, commonly 20–40 m³/h at 4–6 bar on mid-size beverage lines. Heating is electric immersion or steam through a plate exchanger, whichever your boiler room can spare. Controls run from manual valves and a dial thermometer up to a PLC with recipe screens.

Where these units go

Dairy receiving lines and pasteurizers, juice and CSD filling circuits, brewhouse and fermenter CIP, sauce and liquid food kettles, cosmetic mixing vessels, and pharmaceutical process piping. Each has its own rinse-water quality and cycle-time expectations, so we confirm those before quoting.

FAQ

Can one skid serve two circuits? Yes, with a changeover valve manifold, provided the loop volumes and pump curve are checked first.

How much floor space? Most two-tank units fit a 2.5 × 1.5 m footprint.

Do you supply documentation? Material certificates, wiring diagrams, and operating instructions ship with each unit.

Get a quote

Send your industry and product, tank and pipe volumes, required cleaning capacity, heat source available, automation level, stainless grade, and installation site. Our engineers will recommend a configuration and price it.