Challenge:
Rapidly expanding demand meant Nestle Purina continuing to invest heavily in expansion of their pet food manufacturing operations in Russia. Although first production started as recently as 2007 within only a few years the original on-site equipment cleaning capabilities were no longer able to fulfil ongoing and future needs.
New capability needed to be able to service the cleaning needs of several destination circuits including day tank for slurry feeding multiple extruders as well as...
Challenge: Cross contamination between batches became a critical concern for Bowman Ingredients when they recently expanded production capacity with the installation of new mixer vessels fed by pneumatic conveyors from a sack tip area. Compared with the original practice of direct addition of low volume ingredients at the top of the mixers pipework was becoming encrusted. Especiall...
Challenge:
The cost of pharmaceutical creams and ointments mean significant savings can result from production efficiencies. With small batch production the proportion of material left in process pipework at changeover can be significant. Savings originate not only from the recovery of good saleable product but also on minimising disposal costs. Pharmaceutical products in particular having notable liabilities associated with the safe disposal of active material. GSK contacted Martec to determine the possibility of using ...
Challenge:
The scale of Arla’s new Stourton dairy resulted in longer than normal pipe runs and, for production efficiency, the need to recover product from within them. The highly complex and automated lines within the new ‘state of the art’ facility also had a clear objective of maximising shelf life of product through a scrupulous level of manufacturing hygiene. Fragile and/or live culture dairy products have always proved challenging when applying ‘pigging’ technology to recover product from within...
Challenge:
Tiptree approached Martec to help overcome specific concerns they had with an existing pigging system. The system, installed almost 10 years ago, had been designed around a sphere shape pig which was susceptible to damage and had an ineffective cleaning capability; there were concerns with pigs getting stuck. Since the supplier had gone out of business, it was also proving difficult to obtain replacement pigs. Tiptree had a clear understanding of the inherent business benefits that recovering...
Challenge:
When S&W Process Engineering were approached by Nestlé Purina’s central engineering group to bid for a substantial new slurry kitchen at their flagship Sudbury site, they knew the challenge would be significant: Pet food projects always tend to involve large scale plant, difficult materials, and tight timescales, and this project was no different - Nestlé needed to take large blocks of frozen meat and grind them into a mince that is then cooked to form the basis of a smooth gravy for in...