Author: Liza Lavender

The October 2022 issue of ITS Flow Time Newsletter is out now – take a read…

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The Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd Service Engineers regularly visit customers to carry out on-site risk assessments and produce method statements prior to providing servicing, maintenance or repair services for flow equipment in processing facilities across food 🍅, beverage, dairy 🍧, brewery 🍺, distillery 🍸, pharmaceutical 💉 and personal care 🍶 industries.

These site surveys allow ITS to assess access to hygienic equipment, note any hazards, and identify potential issues before delivering a scope of our servicing capabilities for ongoing support. We also log equipment and make recommendations for critical spares inventory, supplying our customers with a report for their own use internally, outside of any services ITS may be called upon to deliver. 📝

ITS provide site surveys, resulting report and an outline of suggested services FREE OF CHARGE and with NO OBLIGATION to book. 👍

If this is something your facility could benefit from, please contact us to discuss further – we are here to help! 😃

01675 465191 / sales@industrialtradingsolutions.com

#deliveringsolutions #processingexcellence #sitesurveys #servicingandmaintenance

Below images show a recent site survey carried out by Safeer Hussain BEng & Praveen Perinpanathan at a healthy snacks plant on a process skid and CIP set of pumps and valves. ⬇️

 

Our Managing Director Andrew Jeans and Marketing Manager Liza Lavender had a wonderful time at the Tate Modern in London last night, networking with other inspirational finalists of The Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards, alongside exceptional views of the city.

Some of the top names in British business attended this intimate pre-awards drinks event and it’s really quite amazing that Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd are being recognised within that list of outstanding companies this year, under the Gateley PLC Business Transformation Of The Year Award

Whatever happens on the 8th of November – our team are winners already and we are proud to work alongside each other every day 🙂

Wish us luck anyway 😉🤞

#finalists #networking #wishusluck #alreadyawinner #bestofbritish

Want to be able to order your hygienic equipment easily online and still have access to the best technical and aftersales support?

ITS lite is being launched for just that!

Keep an eye out for the official launch of our Online Store – ITS Lite – Coming VERY soon!

Activate your account and have processing equipment available at your fingertips, including Valves, Instrumentation, Spares, Tank Equipment, Pipetite and so much more, plus you can still ask the Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd technical team for support from start to finish, and have access to your exclusive discounts and pricing whilst logged in. Pay for items on your account or via our online options for immediate payment and still benefit from next day delivery on stocked items when ordered before our online cut-off time.

Follow us to find out more over the coming weeks, or contact us for more information now…01675 465191 / sales@itslite.co.uk

#itslite #easyonlineshopping #nocompromises #deliveringsolutions #processingexcellence #comingsoon

Need Hygienic Processing Equipment for your Personal Care Manufacturing Facility?

Take a look at systems, services and support that Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd can offer… Product Brochure

Speak with our technical team on 01675 465191 / sales@industrialtradingsolutions.com

#deliveringsolutions #processingexcellence #personalcareindustry #hygienicequipment

Proper handling of yeast between fermentation processes is critical to beer quality and yield 🍺.

Alfa Laval Scandi Brew Agitator conditions the yeast to obtain homogenous slurries with uniform temperature and consistency.

Its modular, low-maintenance design makes it easy to tailor to tank requirements, is easy to clean, and contributes to more uptime and higher productivity and yield. The yeast tank mixer is available in two versions from Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd:

🔹 ALT-SB-15 agitator for small to medium-sized tanks (5 to 50 hl):  Product Leaflet

🔹 ALTB-SB-35 agitator for large tanks (50 to 300 hl, depending on the physical dimensions): Product Leaflet

👉 Visit the ITS website for more information:

Top & Bottom Mounted Agitator Type ALTB

#deliveringssolutions #processingexcellence #craftbrewing

#brewery #ScandiBrew

Are your filtration solutions sustainable?

Replace your bag-filters with a self-cleaning filter solution to help save the environment from disposed filter-bags.

We can help you find the most optimal filtration solutions with HiFlux Filtration A/S self-cleaning automatic filters – available from Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd.

The main advantages of this system are:

  • Increased Productivity
  • Minimised Downtime
  • Protection of the environment
  • Increased return on investment

Would you like more information?

Contact ITS on 01675 465191 / sales@industrialtradingsolutions.com or visit our website for our HiFlux range: Click Here

#filtrationsolutions #deliveringsolutions #processingexcellence

 

Thank you so much to Philippe Leguay from Mouvex, a PSG brand for spending a couple of days with the ITS team to talk in more depth about the H-Flo Eccentric Disc Pump Range. We also managed to fit in a customer visit, a trip to the PPMA show, and many conversations about Mouvex technology and future innovations, alongside this invaluable training.

We look forward to welcoming you again soon 🙂

#partnerships #hygienicpumps #knowledgesharing

The September 2022 issue of our ITS Flow Time Newsletter is now available –

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With the cost of living hitting us all hard, inflation spiralling to levels not seen in decades and businesses already trying to make up for lost income from a tumultuous few years of trading – we are all looking for ways to save the pennies, become more efficient and still reach those ever demanding sustainability goals.

Now more than ever, businesses are realising that investing at the front end will pay back dividends over the coming years, when it comes to resource and equipment – but these decisions are not taken lightly and the outlay needs to be for the right reasons and amply justified.

Challenges for Processing Plants

In these unprecedented times, food and beverage processing plants are operating in ever increasing competitive conditions, and the search for ways in which to stay profitable without compromising product quality is a real challenge.

The food processing industry is the largest single manufacturing sector in the UK and the fourth largest industrial energy user, with a whopping 117 petajoules (PJ) consumed each year (according to the food and drink federation 2018 & the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 2018a). This is largely due to the thermal / refrigeration processes and water used in their operations, plus the hygienic standards and cleaning requirements significantly impacting the intensive energy utilisation. Energy is also often wasted through inefficient processes or equipment, and understanding where improvements could be made is the first step to sustainable practices.

Source – Mapping energy consumption in food manufacturing – ScienceDirect

How can we help you understand the needs of your business support you change for the better?

Using Joules Sustainability Optimisation software, ITS can calculate energy & CO2 emission savings by optimising your pumps and agitators, and CIP media and water savings for mixproof valves and tank cleaning equipment. With the given duty specification, we can provide the best energy & water solutions for inefficient sanitary flow processes!

What we do?

An analysis of components in an existing process to identify potential water and energy savings, by either installing better suited components or finding a superior process solution.

Why we do it?

Analysing the various operational processes of your business allows you to more accurately assess them against sustainable best practice and identify what opportunities are available and what changes you would like to make, whether big or small.

Who can do it?

Sustainability Audits are about understanding where you are now so that you can plan for a more sustainable future and therefore they are suitable for all business that have processes that can be improved upon.

Processing Plants can use ITS expertise in this field to determine where improvements can be made.

Our Service:

  • Flow charts, product data and scheduled operation times provided at planning call
  • Audit estimated at one full working week for the involved persons
  • Calculations and report generation
  • Presentation and conclusion

Our Commitment:

To provide our industry leading sustainability audit, full involvement from our end and the end user operator is required. We will liaise with a process responsible end user representative to make sure the suggested changes are feasible.

Process Optimisation

Investing in process optimisation, whether through energy efficient technologies or manufacturing behavioural changes, are some of the ways in which facilities can reduce energy consumption and production costs, whilst maintaining the quality and integrity of their produce.

Change your Pumps…

If we look at the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a typical pump, you will see that only 7% of the total cost of ownership is coming from the purchase and installation costs.

By far the biggest contributor to total cost of ownership is pump energy. 85% of the money you are paying for operating the pump over its lifetime is consumed by energy costs.

LKH Centrifugal Pumps:

Energy Efficient LKH Centrifugal Pumps Designed for energy efficiency the LKH Centrifugal pump range has been optimised to maximise the energy you input into pumping fluids. This premium energy efficient pump can provide up to 50% greater energy efficiencies compared to similar sized mid-range pumps. With a greater efficiency pump the running costs are reduced from lower energy consumption and less energy is wasted to vibrations, noise and heat leading to less impact on the product quality and less frequent breakdowns. Read here how LKH pumps helped a large dairy facility to reduce energy costs, downtime and emissions Alfa Laval LKH pumps reduce energy costs, downtime and emissions | Alfa Laval

Product Recovery with H-Flo Eccentric Disc Pump:

These pumps have been designed to provide premium performance. They feature a unique seal-less design with a double stainless-steel bellows that ensures durability, safety and product containment. The H-FLO pump delivers high suction vacuum and high discharge pressure that allow it to self-prime and fully strip lines, a critical consideration when maximising product recovery. With increased product recovery you will increase product yields and profits but also reduce waste sent to drain and reduce the amount of CIP needed to clean saving on energy and water costs. Some hygienic pump ranges also provide other benefits including less vibration, noise, and heat generation which all aid to increase the mean-time between failure of the equipment and Total Cost of Ownership.

Heat it with less energy consumed:

Plate heat exchangers are designed to optimise heat transfer because the corrugated plates provide by far the greatest surface area through which the heat can be drawn from one gas or liquid to the other. Despite this substantial area for heat transfer, plate heat exchangers are usually relatively compact. The design of the plate channels also ensures maximum turbulence as each fluid passes through. This results in maximum efficiency in transferring heat from one medium to the other. These heat exchangers includes a range with a new design – namely CurveFlow. The distribution area on these plates means superior flow distribution and more of the available pressure drop over the main heat transfer area. This results in a number of benefits:

  • Increased energy efficiency – Up to 15% higher efficiency
  • Higher flow capacity
  • Up to 40% improvement in self-cleaning capability
  • A more compact heat exchanger – less plates needed
  • Reduced maintenance costs.

The high efficiency and outstanding reliability in a compact design, offers an investment with the most attractive TCO over the product life time. Not to forget the energy saving capabilities and low environmental footprint. These completely redeveloped heat exchangers are setting new standards in energy efficiencies, reliability and serviceability, with unique innovations to maximise productivity and lower life cycle costs.

Increase yield whilst reducing energy consumption with a pigging solution:

The purpose of pigging is to remove or recover residual liquid that remains in a pipe after transfer from one location to another. A pigging system consists of a flexible projectile with a diameter marginally larger than the pipeline that needs pigging. Water, other liquid, compressed air or gas, or even the product being processed is then used to propel the pig through the pipe and remove or recover the remaining product and increase yield of product per operating cycle!

Features & Benefits:

  • High Return on Investment
  • Reduced waste and less production downtime
  • Increased yields leading to better margins
  • Lower water consumptions and more sustainable
  • Reduce Cleaning times as they don’t need to run as long
  • Reduce chemical usage

 This doesn’t even include the additional savings from waste handling/disposal costs, changeover time labour costs, cleaning fluid, energy and water costs!

Increase energy savings by including next generation agitators:

With the EnSaFoil Impeller, these agistiators offer up to 400% greater efficiencies. Even flow rates across the impeller compared to standard pitched impellers, minimise input from the drive unit. The result is reduction of power consumption by up to 80% from the agitator alone.

Tank Cleaning at its best…

TJ20G & TJ40G Rotary Jet Heads:

These tank-cleaning devices provide exceptional cleanability, better end-product quality, greater overall output and up to 70% reduction in operating costs compared to static spray-ball technology. The strong targeted jets provide greater cleaning force and reduce cleaning cycle times and therefore reduces water and chemical consumptions. They are designed for hygienic applications, such as food, dairy, personal care and beverages. High impact quality assured cleaning in smaller tanks.

Orbitor Eco. This Rotary Jet Head:

This is a new breed of impingement tank cleaners designed to vastly improve water usage and time efficiency. Unlike conventional impingement cleaners that have been geared for power, this tank cleaning head has been geared to produce a very fast cleaning cycle that uses very little water. Up to 95% water saving when compared to static spray balls & up to 75% water saving when compared to rotary spray balls.

PlusClean for shadow areas:

A Cleaning nozzle that revolutionises tank cleaning in your hygienic processes. Paired with your top-mounted tank cleaning device, the PlusClean smoothly integrates into the tank wall or bottom. When activated during Cleaning-in-Place (CIP), it hits shadow areas with a fan of pressurised cleaning media, guaranteeing 100% impact cleaning coverage, up to 80% savings in water and cleaning agent costs, and 0% contaminants.

Use Reliable, Efficient Valves and Automation to control the flow:

When used with the new Alfa Laval ThinkTop V50 & V70 Automation Range with the Burst Clean and Pulse Clean technologies, trials have revealed that up to 95% of the CIP sent to drain during cleaning can be saved with our valves- significantly lowering operating and waste management costs compared to using traditional (PLC) timer-controlled valve actuations.

Pulse Clean:

Typically drain valves will comprise up to 20% of all valves within a processing plant. Cleaning them is costly, difficult and time consuming due to the long cleaning cycles needed to remove product or debris and due to risk of pressure shocks. With our “Pulse Clean” technology we can address these issues quickly and effectively by providing a spotless clean to the equipment while delivering savings of up to 95% of the Cleaning-in-place (CIP) liquid that would traditionally be used. Instead of the drain valves opening on a PLC timer, technology within the ThinkTop Control head pulses the valve open and closed multiple times to generate turbulent flow for cleaning whilst minimising fluids sent to drain without compromise to cleanability.

Burst Clean – With Double seat mixproof valves:

The typical cleaning regime requires the seats to be independently lifted for 5 or more seconds at multiple times for each part of the cleaning process cycle. The PLC timer typically cannot be shortened below 5 seconds as it needs to be open for long enough that the PLC catches the signal feedback from the control head. With the “Burst Clean” feature of the ThinkTop V70 Control head the programming is already set within the unit so that it opens in small 1 second bursts maintaining turbulent jetting to provide full cleanability whilst minimising CIP fluids sent to drain. When mounted on our Alfa Laval Mixproof valves trials have shown that up to 90% of CIP liquids can be saved when the “Burst Clean” feature is used.

IBC’s account for around 15% of the global packaging market and due to their high operational performance and cost efficiency for both transport and storage of oil, chemical, food/beverages & pharmaceuticals have an annual growth rate of around 9.5% (Cat Pumps) n.d. . IBC totes are typically 818-2500 litre capacity and therefore take a significant amount of water and energy to clean for re-use.

The ITSClean Range:

There are several types of IBC washing machines that range from simple drop-in equipment to stationary machines. The ITSClean Range offers options for all budgets and needs. COMING SOON!

Look at the potential results of using the ITSClean range…

  • Make it possible to bring the entire cleaning process in-house, completely eliminating third-party costs.
  • Cleaning of IBC’s between 25-50 times faster than doing it manually.
  • Cleaning time pre-set which allows labour to concentrate on other tasks.
  • Cleaning time reduced to 4 – 8 minutes depending on amount & type of residue.
  • Our IBC wash-station is proven to save time, water and money.

Contact ITS to find out more about our IBC cleaners or to discuss any of the other products / services we have on offer that can support your facility to save energy, water, time and money!

Overcoming Clean In Place challenges in hygienic applications with Mouvex, a PSG brand…

Read how Mouvex Eccentric Disc Technology is a the forefront of the sanitary processes found in the food and beverage industry.

Published Article in Process Food Industry – https://www.industrialtradingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mouvex-Article-Processed-Food-Industry-Feb-2022.pdf

Published Article in Food, Engineering and Ingredients Magazine – https://www.industrialtradingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mouvex-Article-Food-Engineering-Ingredients-June-2022.pdf

These articles highlight the advantages of eccentric disc pumps and the Mouvex Easy Clean System shown here – https://www.industrialtradingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mouvex-Easy-Clean-System.pdf

If you would like more information, speak with ITS on 01675 465191 / sales@industrialtradingsolutions.com / www.industrialtradingsolutions.com

#deliveringsolutions #processingexcellence #eccentricdiscpumps #cip #foodandbeverageindustry

Do you have unsightly, unsanitary holes in your facility walls or ceilings where pipes penetrate?

Our Solution – Pipetite

Pipetite offers the essential ability of sealing the connection whilst allowing for significant movement of the pipe. Installation is simple, the product accommodates a large number of different pipe diameters and offers long term performance while remaining cost competitive.

Pipetites are ideal for sealing new piping, openings in walls, ceilings or floor to wall transitions.

As the only distributor of Pipetite product in the UK, take a look at the range available from Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd here: Click Here

#pipetite #deliveringsolutions #processingexcellence #innovativesolution

Many Thanks to Axel Hilding Ohlsson from Alfa Laval for the Sustainability / Process Optimisation Training being delivered to our sales and engineering team today!

Alfa Laval continue to innovate with their hygienic products and services, and Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd are proud to be UK Master Distributor and supply customers with these Energy, Water and Cost Saving Solutions – needed now more than ever!

Take a look at Alfa Laval equipment available from ITS: https://www.industrialtradingsolutions.com/productcategory/alfa-laval/

#sustainability #processoptimisation #savings #deliveringsolutions #processingexcellence

 

Great Day supporting the BFBI Golf Day 2022 at Branston Golf and Country Club.

The weather held off for the 16 teams involved and after a few beers, steak & ale pie and some well deserved awards – including a ‘hole in one’, another successful BFBI event drew to an end.

We look forward to next year!

Your smile and everything you stood for, will be truly missed. 👑

Goodbye and Rest In Peace, to one of the most inspirational figures of our time – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 😢

This is a new ITT Bornemann SLH-5G-3000 series pump which is on its way out from Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd to replace an older obsolete SLH-3G-125 pump in a soft drink syrup application. It will perform the same duty however, the benefit of the new SLH-5G-3000 is that the face to face dimensions of the ports/connections are made like for like against the old SLH-3G series pumps, meaning no pipework modifications are needed and the pump can be directly connected up to the existing pipework, reducing down time when replacing the pump.

The SLH-5G range, released in 2022, is a twin screw range designed for new processes as well as retro-fitting into existing processes to replace the SLH-3G and SLH-4G pump ranges, without the need for modifying pipework. The larger screw areas on the 5G range allows for increased displacement leading to smaller models being selected against competition, whilst maintaining performance and easing costs.

Would you like to know more about the Bornemann SLH range of twin screw pumps? Visit our page:

SLH-4 Range

Or contact us to speak with one of the ITS technical team: 01675 465191 / sales@industrialtradingsolutions.com

#twinscrewtechnology #hygienicsolutions #hygienicpumps #deliveringsolutions #processingexcellence

Eilersen – The preferred supplier of weighing solutions to The Jacobsen Brewery – See why here…

The Jacobsen brewhouse is placed in the historic buildings on Valby Bakke, Copenhagen where world-class beer for the Danes has been brewed since 1847. The listed buildings challenge the way production facilities are designed to secure an effective production 24 hours a day. It is a challenge that Jacobsen is solving the best way possible and here at Eilersen Electric A/S we are very pleased with the long cooperation with the brewery.

The cooperation between Jacobsen and Eilersen Electric A/S goes many years back. The brewery has a combination of older analogue compression load cells and some of the new digital weighing solutions. Both are used to weigh the contents in various storage tanks. In addition, they also have multiple 5024G weighing terminals for local weighing through weighing signal to PLC.

The load cells from Eilersen are based on a patented capacitive technology and are produced in stainless steel and hermetically sealed to IP68 by laser welding. Furthermore, the Eilersen load cells feature high accuracy and robustness, outstanding reliability, simple mechanical and electrical installation, and minimal maintenance for use in tough and demanding industrial applications. Despite the many advantages of upgrading to a complete digital solution from Eilersen, Jacobsen still retains some of the analogue load cells installed in the beginning of the 1980’s. That is due to the simple fact, that the analogue load cells are still working impeccably.

Jan Juul, Production Manager at Jacobsen, explains the reasons behind the long-term cooperation with Eilersen: “Eilersen delivers robust weighing systems that suit perfectly with our range of applications. The whole installation process is made easy for us as a customer. With Eilersen, we get excellent service and expert advice whenever new projects are launched. I am confident that Eilersen will continue to be our preferred weighing solution supplier in the future”.

Michael Martinussen, Sales Manager at Eilersen Electric supports this: ”For us, it is important that every customer gets a solution that fits perfectly with their applications. With our products and expert knowledge, we can offer just that”.

If you are interested in reading more about our digital load cells, you can Click Here

Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd are the Authorised UK Distributor for Eilersen.

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