Collo

07/10/2026

About last night... 🌱

WE WON! 🏆 Collo took home the Sustainability and Circular Economy award at the Alimentaria FoodTech Innova Awards in Barcelona!

And this one hits different. Our earlier awards said the technology works. This one says it matters: water saved, energy saved, good product kept in the product and out of the drain.

Look at these two. All the love to Julia Vieira and Anna Ranki, who grabbed the trophy on stage for every single person at Collo.

Sustainability that pays off, proven on real production lines. 💚

05/10/2026

🎤 Collo speakers, Speakers' Corner, 45 minutes on the question every plant is circling.

Anna and Julia take the stage at Alimentaria FoodTech on Tuesday 6 October at 16:00 with
"What a zero-loss plant looks like, and what it takes to run one".

What they will cover:

→ Where a plant's liquid losses actually sit: changeovers, CIP phases, the first rinse.
→ What changes when the loss is visible cycle by cycle, with before and after.
→ What it takes to run it every day

Two people who spend their weeks on plant floors, with the graphs to prove it.
Insights shows the loss. Signals stops it. Come and see what that looks like in practice.

29/09/2026

Today is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. 🌎

The EU counts 11.1 million tonnes of food waste a year from the manufacture of food and drink. The count stops where the drain begins: food that leaves a plant with its wastewater is not measured, because in 2019 no reliable method existed.

By our estimate, another 1.4 to 4.6 million tonnes leave that way. Milk, b**r and juice, mixed with water. 💧

Now it can be measured, and removed. https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yGJ0Y0 (https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yGJ0k0)

28/09/2026

Five questions that separate a fundable AI project from a pilot that dies in finance review.

Written for dairy and beverage plants. Useful in any vendor conversation, ours included.

Turn every drop into value.

24/09/2026

Collo is heading to Barcelona. 🇪🇸

Alimentaria FoodTech, 6 to 8 October, Fira de Barcelona Gran Via.
You'll find us in Hall 2 at stand A491.

Meet Anna Ranki, Julia Vieira, and Tom Quinten at our stand to see how the Collo Platform helps liquid producers cut loss, improve efficiency, and move close to a zero-loss factory.

Tuesday 6 October, 16:00, Speakers' Corner. Anna and Julia on "What a zero-loss plant looks like, and what it takes to run one."

Let's turn every drop into value

23/09/2026

Every food and beverage board has an AI budget. Fewer can say what it returned. 💸

McKinsey's State of AI 2026 puts it plainly: 37% of companies see any EBIT impact from AI at all. The high performers are still around 6%. Same as last year.

The detail that matters for this sector: consumer goods companies point their AI at marketing and sales. The cost savings show up in supply chain and manufacturing.

The money and the returns sit in different buildings. 🏭 vs 🏢

The AI projects that reach the P&L in liquid food tend to look alike. One narrow problem. One signal from inside the process you can trust. One decision the automation acts on without waiting for a meeting.

CIP cycles and changeovers fit that description better than almost anything else in the plant.

Turn every drop into value at https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0ykzW10



Source: McKinsey, The State of AI 2026 (25 Aug 2026): https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0ykzW20

16/09/2026

Last week was Zero Waste Week. One number from the beverage world is worth taking into this week and beyond... ♻️

Large beverage systems still report close to 1.8 litres of water for every litre they sell. The best soft drink sites, on the Ecolab and CDP benchmarks, run at 1.2 to 1.4.

Half a litre per litre. Where does it go?

Mostly into rinses, CIP cycles, and the moment product gives way to water at a changeover. The site meter counts all of it. It cannot tell you which one. And every litre in that gap is paid for twice. Once coming in, once going out as effluent.

A benchmark says where you stand. Measurement inside the process says which step is costing you the gap.

Thank you to Rachelle Strauss and the Zero Waste Week community for keeping waste on the calendar every September.

Make every drop matter. 💧

25/08/2026

We expected the waste figure to travel. Editors went for the AI angle instead.
Smart Machines & Factories is the third title to lead with it, and they are right to.

Almost every large dairy group has an AI strategy. Most have a pilot. Few have much in production. The models are rarely the problem.

Dairy AI is trained on sensors that flood the line with readings and still cannot pinpoint a loss event. Feed that to a model and you get confident guesswork at speed. At industry scale it looks like 24 million tonnes of waste a year.

Fix the input and the rest gets easier.

Full piece: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0xDXYD0 — send it to whoever owns your AI roadmap.

18/08/2026

Legacy sensors prevent dairy manufacturers from deploying AI.' That is Plant & Works Engineering's summary of our findings, and we would not soften it

Every dairy plant has a wall of instruments. Conductivity, flow, turbidity. All calibrated. All reporting normal. And product still goes down the drain.

They measure one property and infer the rest. They cannot say which pushout, which CIP phase, which second. So plants pad the procedure and pay for the padding, forever.

At one European cheese plant, up to 2.28% of product was being silently diluted. Nothing on the panel showed it.

Turn every drop into value. Start by measuring what is actually in the pipe.

Full piece:

New calculations from deep tech pioneer Collo show how unreliable legacy sensors prevent dairy manufacturers from deploying AI, thereby causing a €15 billion ($17.1 billion) waste crisis alongside severe environmental strain across the world. Each year, dairies flush as much organic pollution as t...

14/08/2026

Automation News picked up our dairy waste calculation, and went straight for the CIP angle.

Most dairy CIP cycles are still timed, not measured. The recipe says 12 minutes of caustic, so it runs 12 minutes, whether the line was clean at minute seven or dirty at fourteen. Conservative? Yes. Compliant? Absolutely. Efficient? Not even close.

Multiply that worldwide and you get 24 million tonnes of dairy waste a year.
Real-time RF measurement reads the liquid and feeds state to the PLC.

Every litre you keep in the pipe is a litre you sell.

🔗 Automation News has the full calculation: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0xDYSk0

Worth ten minutes if you own a CIP recipe you have never been allowed to shorten.