Sugar testing for cider production QA/QC

Case Study - Bulmers Cider Mill (Published in 2009)

Accurate testing of sugar content in cider for Quality Control and Quality Assurance purposes is critical to ensuring conformity and consistency of final cider product, as well as delivering significant financial savings. As specialists in chemistry analysis for a broad spectrum of analytes, HORIBA Medical has placed the first ABX Pentra 400 bench top chemistry analyzer into the UK Cider industry at the Bulmers.

This case study discusses how this fully automated chemistry analyzer is now providing routine sugar content testing at the site which is reliable, efficient and cost effective.