EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


Company name: Location: Objective:


Solution: Results:


Strathmore Foods Ltd. Forfar, Scotland


Accurate, reliable and consistent hot water supply to provide efficient cleaning for wash- down processes.


Following a plant audit, the business installed a new packaged plate heat exchanger unit. Fast and instantaneous supply of hot water through a single unit which has the ability to cope with greater demand, providing the opportunity for expansion in the future.


The new unit has the ability to deliver hot water instantaneously, enabling CIP and wash-down to be completed in a much more productive way.”


A packaged plate heat exchanger is a compact unit that captures and reuses heat, which may otherwise be wasted, to deliver a constant supply of instantaneous hot water at a stable temperature. This reduces the amount of steam required, which in turn cuts fuel demand and the associated CO2


emissions. Quality over quantity


“As you can imagine, a single unit is much easier to manage than it was before, therefore maintenance time and costs have been cut dramatically, as has downtime. While the packaged plate heat exchanger certainly doesn’t eliminate the need for annual servicing, its requirements are much simpler to manage.


“Our new system is part of an existing service agreement we have with Spirax which has made our annual servicing procedure a fairly effortless one. All of this helps us to keep the system running at optimum efficiency all year round, which is our main objective,” Douglas adds.


Sweet success


Since updating its steam/water mixing units, Strathmore Foods has even greater control of the amount of water they are using. “We’re already seeing improvements over our previous solution. What’s more, the new packaged plate heat exchanger unit supplied to Strathmore Foods generates increased volumes of hot water and provides the business with an opportunity for expansion when the time is right,” says Douglas.


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THE FLEXIBILITY OF THE SYSTEM ENABLES US TO RUN MORE CONFIDENTLY


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“We now have the ability to cope with high and low capacity and we can tailor the output we require on demand.”


Douglas concludes: “At the early planning stages, we were quite simply looking at ways to improve our wash-down process, but we have gained a lot more than we bargained for. Our primary aim was to improve process efficiency, and not only


have we achieved that but we’ve also secured a sustainable future for the business as this device will allow us room to grow.


“The fact we now have a reliable and consistent supply of hot water is a huge benefit to the business in terms of time and cost, while the flexibility of the system enables us to run more confidently. Spirax is a trusted partner of ours and we have the peace of mind that with this solution we can ensure everything is cleaned in an efficient and effective way. They say great things come in small packages. In this case we can wholeheartedly agree!”


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