This paper examines the general technical aspects of membrane technology when applied to the soft drinks industry. A full scale plant has been installed at Wells Soft Drinks in Northampton, the site is fed from a surface water source within the Anglian Water region. The new water treatment plant installed at Wells Soft Drinks was supplied and commissioned by Anglian Water in 1997. It is a Membrane Hybrid System. Developed by Anglian Water Innovation in the UK, the Membrane Hybrid System is a combination of ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis equipped with spiral wound ultra low pressure reverse osmosis thin film composite membranes and spiral wound ultrafiltration membranes (see Fig.1). For water treatment within the soft drinks industry, membrane applications have many advantages over the conventional ion exchange plants used in the industry.