Industry: Food & Bev Application: Chilled Water Pumps system Challenge: Ginsters bakery, which employs 370 staff producing more than three and a half million pastry products a week, was keen to investigate its energy use to improve efficiency and cut costs at the plant. Tom Crawford, Projects Manager, says: “Ginsters is committed to reducing its […]
Industry: Plastics Application: Plastic Extrusion Site Challenge: Capital Valley Plastics, based in Cwmavon, South Wales, produces gas barriers, damp proof membrane and damp-proof course at its plant near Pontypool in South Wales. The company uses several blown film extruders, which it was keen to make more efficient and productive. Richard Haigh, Capital Valley’s project manager, […]
Industry: Industry Building Application: Fans Extract Challenge: Dyson vacuum cleaner prototypes are put through their paces with a battery of tests that include their ability to remove dust from surfaces. The dust produced for these tests needs to eventually be extracted to maintain a safe and healthy atmosphere. It is extracted from several test points […]
Industry: Plastic Injection Moulding Manufacturing Application: Cooling Roof Fans Site Challenge: During the warmer months, a plastic moulding injection factory became excessively warm due to the nature of its production processes, necessitating the use of roof vent fans for air circulation. The operation of these fans during a Noise Audit resulted in elevated ambient noise […]
Industry: Automotive Application: Motor Upgrades Site Challenge: BMW Group’s Mini manufacturing plant in Oxford had a large installed base of its original legacy IE1/IE2 motors which have a reduced efficiency level. Installing the latest motor technology with the latest IE5 synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) and drive packages from ABB, could increase plant efficiency, reduce costs […]
Industry: Food Manufacture Application: Fans Site Challenge: The Heinz factory in Wigan produces over 1.3 billion cans of food per year. This requires 100 tonnes of steam every hour, used for both heating the factory space and sterilisation of canned foods. The plant’s energy centre has four boilers. Each has two gas-fired burners supplied by […]
