Cut Costs and Boost Yields with Liquid Product Recovery
In today’s global economy, businesses that process liquids or wet products, from food and beverage manufacturers to homecare, lubricants, and chemical producers, are facing growing uncertainty in the market.
And yes, that includes dealing with high tariffs on a range of products.
Changes in trade agreements, supply chain disruptions, and shifting economic policies all add to the uncertainly and can potentially significantly impact costs.
Whether it’s raw materials, ingredients, packaging, or imported equipment, managing the risk of tariff-related and other cost pressures is becoming increasingly important across industries.
While many companies are looking for ways to offset these additional costs, one highly effective but often overlooked solution is Advanced Liquid Product Recovery Technology, also known as Hygienic “Pigging” Technology.
Here’s how you can beat cost increases and boost your profitability with liquid product recovery technology.
Stop Wasting Product: What is Pigging Technology?
In traditional processes, significant quantities of valuable liquid product are lost during:
- Line changeovers
- Cleaning (CIP/SIP processes)
- End-of-batch emptying
- Transfers between different production stages
Liquid product recovery systems, like those developed by HPS Product Recovery Solutions, automatically, safely and efficiently recover this product from pipelines.
How Pigging Works?
Rather than flushing or wasting product, pigging systems use a specialist projectile, called a pig, to push the remaining product through the pipeline to its destination (such as a tank or filler).
Pigging is quick, hygienic, and compatible with most existing and new processing lines – and it delivers impressive returns by increasing product yield and reducing loss.
Why Pigging Helps Beat Tariff Cost Increases
When tariffs increase the cost of raw materials, ingredients or packaging, maximising efficiency is more important than ever. Here’s how HPS pigging systems help you stay competitive:
Maximise Yields and Raw Material Usage
If you’re losing product during every line change or cleaning cycle, you’re also losing the raw materials that went into making it.
HPS pigging systems typically recover up to 99.5% of product from full pipelines. That means less waste, fewer raw materials needed, and lower input costs without sacrificing output.
For example, if your production line loses 50 litres of product per changeover, and you have 4 changeovers per day, that’s 200 litres lost daily.
Over a year, this adds up to more than 70,000 litres of valuable product wasted.
Recovering this product could save you thousands, or even hundreds of thousands or Pounds, Dollars, or Euros every year, depending on the value of your product.
Lower Waste and Disposal Costs
Liquid waste disposal is not just a logistical hassle, it’s a significant cost – which is often increased by environmental levies and waste tariffs.
By recovering product with HPS pigging technology, manufacturers reduce the amount of waste requiring disposal, saving both money and time, while enhancing your environmental credentials.
Save Water, Chemicals, and Energy
Many companies flush pipelines with water or cleaning agents to remove residual product and to prepare the pipeline for the next batch.
Product recovery significantly reduces the need for this, saving:
- Water costs
- Cleaning chemical costs
- Energy costs (heating water, operating CIP systems)
- Wastewater treatment costs
In some applications, it’s possible to pig the line and eliminate the need for traditional flushing altogether. However, in most cases, pigging the line beforehand significantly reduces the intensity and resource demands of the flushing process.
Reducing Downtime and Increasing Throughput
Changeovers take time – especially when extensive cleaning is required.
By recovering product more efficiently, you shorten changeover times and keep production running longer, helping you produce more units in the same time frame.
In the face of rising input costs, higher productivity is a major competitive advantage.
Adapt to Supply Chain Pressures
In addition to managing tariffs, pigging helps mitigate the broader challenges caused by global supply chain uncertainty. Whether it’s longer lead times or sourcing difficulties, having a more efficient production line gives you greater flexibility and resilience.
Pigging allows you to:
- Switch products quickly
- Reduce batch sizes without increased waste – by recovering nearly all residual product from pipelines, pigging minimises the fixed losses typically associated with changeovers, making smaller, more agile production runs economically viable
- Optimise production scheduling
This agility helps you respond faster to changing demand or supply issues.
Real-World Example: Product Recovery Savings
HPS pigging systems are delivering measurable results for leading manufacturers:
- A UK chocolate company saves over £2 million annually in recovered product, while improving product quality and reducing cross-contamination.
- A lubricant producer recovers up to 50,000 litres daily, and has cut loading times by 50%.
- A pet food manufacturer was losing over £4 million per year in waste. HPS installed fully automated pigging systems, drastically reducing losses and operating costs.
Future-Proof Your Operations
As environmental regulations tighten and sustainability becomes a business imperative, pigging offers a dual benefit: cost savings and environmental performance.
By reducing waste, energy use, and water consumption, pigging supports sustainability goals while directly improving profitability – making it a future-proof investment.
Find Out How Much You Could Save
If your business is feeling the impact of economic uncertainty, tariffs or rising input costs, it’s time to talk to HPS.
Our experts will assess your process and design a tailored pigging solution to recover more product, reduce waste, and maximise profitability.
Contact us today for a no-obligation consultation or to arrange a demonstration of our advanced pigging technology.