Food & Beverage Wastewater
Water Quality Monitoring at Sunrise Soya Foods — Canada's Largest Tofu Producer
1 / 5Project Background
Sunrise Soya Foods began in 1956, when Leslie and Susan Joe started making tofu in their Vancouver kitchen and selling it at their family-run Sunrise Market in Chinatown. Over the decades it has grown from a small family shop into Canada's largest tofu producer, employing more than 200 people — with quality rooted in uncompromising production standards.
Customer Challenge
Tofu production is water-intensive, and process water can carry contaminants such as heavy metals and organic pollutants. Without continuous monitoring, quality risks to the product — and health risks to consumers — can go undetected. At the same time, improperly managed wastewater discharge harms the environment and exposes the company to regulatory violations and legal liability.
The TENGINE Solution
At Sunrise's Vancouver facility, TENGINE deployed a comprehensive suite of online instruments covering solids concentration, turbidity, level and flow — turning water quality monitoring into a seamless, intelligent process that safeguards both production water and wastewater discharge.
Implementation
6 MLSS sludge concentration meters, 3 TSS turbidity meters, 4 TULI integrated ultrasonic level meters and 2 TLD electromagnetic flow meters were installed across the production water and wastewater lines at the Vancouver plant.
Project Results
Monitoring now runs continuously and intelligently: production-water quality is assured, wastewater discharge stays compliant, and the plant has gained efficiency in energy conservation and emissions reduction — a reference project for TENGINE instrumentation in the North American food & beverage industry.
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