Many thanks to Per Kollerup Jensen & Niels Kristian Poulsen from Daniatech for spending this week training ITS technical staff on the outstanding capabilities of their products. Our in-house LabMaster has been getting a workout, trialling various recipes!
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Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd embraced our ‘HAPPINESS’ core value for Mental Health Awareness week, to help break down some of the barriers surrounding emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
We pride ourselves on a great culture and family values at ITS, and want to ensure that all employees are Happy and Healthy, so this week we all took part in activities that encouraged staff to speak about their wellbeing and take time out for themselves.
We set up a ‘Room of Tranquillity’ for relaxation and reflection, a ‘Let’s Talk’ session where we all opened up about how stress manifests in us individually, and ideas to tackle these issues. We also provided fresh fruit to nurture our bodies as well as our minds, and added a little of what we love (Cheesecake and chocolate played a big part in that!).
Staff took part in a day for ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ and agreed we should continue this as a permanent activity going forward, and to top it all off, ITS gave all staff a ‘Bad Day Bonus’ – an extra half day holiday that can be used on that day where you arrive and work and just don’t feel it! Plus we announced the benefit of the Bupa initiative for wellbeing was now available to all staff for emotional and practical support via their 24 hour helpline.
It’s ok not to be ok, but it sure helps to have somebody to talk to when you are not in a good place.
Heat Exchangers play a big role in the food and beverage, starch and ethanol, and pharmaceutical industries. And we know you need to be confident about their performance – to ensure production availability as well as product quality and safety.
Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd have a keen understanding about the unique demands of these hygiene-critical applications and can therefore provide technical support that will help you to select the right solution for your individual requirements.
A poorly functioning heat exchanger may affect safety, product quality, and energy costs. Failure may lead to costly downtime and major losses in production. Our solutions are manufactured by renowned global suppliers with decades of industry knowledge, so the products you procure from ITS can always be trusted. With regular and proactive maintenance, performance is preserved and operations kept trouble-free and predictable.
Trust ITS to deliver solutions and process excellence – always.
We have a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience, but ITS is more than just the high standard of products and services we offer. We stand by our values and principles to help make ITS, and the world we live in, a better place.
Take a look at our Business Principles and Core Values – Click Here
Do business with a team that you can trust!
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Technical Team members Praveen Perinpanathan and Safeer Hussain BEng attended Alfa Laval ‘Troubleshooting and Upgrades’ course in Kolding at the end of April. From investigating common industry process pitfalls and optimisation methods for Pumps, Valves, Tank Equipment and Heat Exchangers, to an engaging and fun team-building evening, it was an action packed week with plenty of networking opportunities and unforgettable experiences!
We would like to thank the Team in Kolding for all their insights and hospitality over the week, from everyone here at ITS.
Sealing pipes where they pass through walls or ceilings has been a source of aggravation and repeated maintenance costs for many years. And with all processing plants being required to control their processing environment to avoid contamination from moisture, pests and airborne particles, unsealed gaps in walls, floors and ceilings are a prime source for these issues. By sealing penetrations, facilities eliminate one such potential hazard, avoiding risks to health and ensuring a safe product.
So here we have a simple, hygienic, and inexpensive solution…
Pipetite® is a flexible, self-sealing, sanitary wall boot that seals around tubing or pipe penetrations.
It’s unique design eliminates the need for sealants and is easily adapted to fit most pipe or tube diameters.
Constructed of hygienic white silicone, 316 stainless steel and with a temperature rating of -40°c to 260°c, this totally self-sealing boot, fits snuggly to walls and ceilings, whilst giving superior flexibility for movement, without causing damage or breaking the seal.
Pipetite®also comes with pre-drilled holes for quick and easy installation, so no messy clean-ups – and it makes unsightly gaps look neat and tidy!
Pipetite®is great for:
Sealing new or existing piping
Covering openings in ceilings, walls, floors or areas of plastic or sheet metal.
Sealing around cables, tubing, hose, or wires
Seals that are exposed to sunlight, cleaning solutions or other harsh environments
Tube-in-tube floor or wall transitions
Where fire, pressure or other regulations need to be adhered to
Where can you purchase Pipetite®?
As the ONLY UK distributor of Pipetite®products, Industrial Trading Solution Ltd can supply Pipetite®from stock, to anywhere in the UK and fast.
ITS are process flow equipment specialists, with a multitude of top equipment brands available and over 100 years combined experience in the food and beverage, brewery, dairy, pharmaceutical and personal care industries. Our in-house technical staff can support you with large systems projects, one off product purchases, spares, and even maintenance or repair services.
You can trust ITS to find the best solutions for all of your hygienic flow requirements.
Would you like to know what products Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd can spec, supply and support in the dairy industry? Take a look at our Dairy Products Brochure and contact our technical team if you would like to discuss a requirement or project for your dairy application.
Or speak with one of the technical sales team at Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd for more information. 01675 465191 / sales@industrialtradingsolutions.com
Read here how using ITT Bornemann twin screw pumps, a sweets manufacturer completely solved their pump wear issue and is now enjoying a dramatic reduction in costs for parts, maintenance and downtime!
Do you have a pain-point in your process? Contact Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd and one of our experienced technical team will talk you through the quality and reliable range of solutions we have available for your specific application.
sales@industrialtradingsolutions.com / 01675 465191 or visit our website: www.industrialtradingsolutions.com
It makes good sense to use digital load cells for controlling the mixing of ingredients and raw materials in food production. Digital load cells are more accurate and can communicate directly with the dosing equipment, which means that you can dose the individual raw materials and ingredients – both liquid and solid – very accurately in the mixer. This ensures a perfect mixing result – every time.
Quick and easy installation
The digital load cells from Eilersen are delivered to you through Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd as “Plug & Play”. This means that the load cells are delivered calibrated and ready for use. They simply need to be mounted under the legs of the mixer and connected to the instrumentation.
As these are digital load cells, the length of the cables has no bearing on the calibration of the load cell. You can therefore blot the short load cell cable to the desired length.
In the case of analogue load cells, you can’t shorten the cables without changing the calibration. The cable must therefore be rolled up and placed in a suitable place. It is inappropriate, and such a cable reel can quickly act as a dirt collector in an otherwise clean and hygienic food production.
Digital load cells can be read individually
When installing the weighing system, it is possible to read the weight supported by each individual load cell. Most mixers have four legs, which means that two or four load cells can be used under the mixer – depending on the required accuracy.
Of course, it is important that the weight of the mixer is distributed across all four legs so that the installation of the mixer is stable. The distribution of the weight across the legs can be read with the digital load cells, after which the length of the mixers legs can be adjusted. When using digital load cells, however, you do not need to have exactly the same weight on all mixer legs, as the load cell’s digital calibration adjusts for uneven distribution of the weight.
With high-shear mixers, strong lateral forces occur on the legs, and thus on the load cells, which is undesirable, as this will usually affect the accuracy and reliability of the weighing system. This however, does not apply to Eilersen’s digital load cells, which are extremely robust and unaffected by lateral forces, which is why these load cells are used by mixer manufacturers worldwide.
Designed according to EHEDG guidelines
Our digital load cells are designed to meet the guidelines for hygienic design as specified by EHEDG. This means that the load cells do not collect dirt and are easy to keep free of bacteria and residues.
As an option, we can supply 3A-approved tank legs for the mixer, which makes cleaning the mixer and the load cells even easier.
Load cells can also be retrofitted to existing mixers without load cells, and thus increase their precision and performance.
Reliable weighing solutions
All hardware for Eilersen’s weighing and dosing solutions are extremely reliable and particularly suitable for applications where there are demands for hygienic properties and easy cleaning of production equipment.
The weighing cells and weighing terminals have been developed to withstand harsh treatment in a typical production environment necessitating high-pressure cleaning with harsh detergents and disinfectants.
Would you like to see our range of Weighing Solutions? – Visit our website: Weighing Solutions Range
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In heat transfer, getting the most energy-efficient and reliable performance comes down to having the ideal technology for your specific conditions.
Several factors can influence what type of plate heat exchanger offers the best fit for a specific duty. These can include type of media and refrigerant, design pressure, capacity needs, efficiency demands, serviceability requirements, and many more.
Based on the specific needs and conditions of your operation, Industrial Trading Solutions can support you to select from a comprehensive range of solutions from Alfa Laval.
Alfa Laval solutions enable food, beverage, pharmaceutical, dairy, and personal care industry customers to benefit from many of the most advanced technologies available, in full compliance with various regulations and other exceptional hygiene requirements. Decades have been spent developing plate heat exchanger technologies that enable higher efficiency and help businesses optimise energy use in their processes.
Every year, newly installed Alfa Laval plate heat exchangers enable customers to save 50GW of energy. That’s the same amount of energy that it takes to annually heat 10 million European homes.
That 50GW also translates to a 25-million-tonne reduction in global CO2 emissions, or what’s emitted every year by the city of Paris.
We explore a selection of the comprehensive range of Heat Exchanger options available through Industrial Trading Solutions for hygienic applications:
Brazed Heat Exchangers
Our copper-brazed plate heat exchangers are a compact, efficient and maintenance-free solution for heating, cooling, evaporation and condensing in numerous applications. Each unit is designed for duty optimisation, with a range of unique features that ensure both superior thermal performance and maximum reliability. This enables the longest possible service life – even under conditions with extremely high design pressures.
Lightweight brazed construction offers much greater thermal efficiency and 75% smaller footprint than comparable shell-and-tubes.
The flexible DynaStatic distribution system in AC models enables higher efficiency in any evaporator duty and with any refrigerant
Alfa Laval’s FlexFlow plate design provides channel asymmetry that can be tailored to fit the application
We help you select the optimal pressing depth, plate pattern and configuration for your application
An ideal solution for use with natural refrigerants, thanks to the compact footprint, optimised plate design and high design pressure
With a robust and reliable construction, Alfa Laval’s comprehensive range of brazed plate technology offers a smart alternative to traditional heat exchangers.
Fusion-bonded Plate Heat Exchangers
AlfaFusion bonding technology creates highly efficient, compact heat exchangers made entirely of stainless steel. Virtually maintenance free and capable of handling extremely high pressures and temperatures, our fusion-bonded heat exchangers are an ideal heat transfer solution for challenging applications. These include duties with high cleanliness demands, with aggressive media such as ammonia, or where copper or nickel pose contamination risks.
100% stainless steel construction means 100% recyclability
Resists corrosion from aggressive media and process fluids
Prevents nickel or copper-contamination when working with drinking water or any other hygienic fluid
AlfaFusion technology enables higher temperature resistance than traditional brazed heat exchangers with same high-pressure capabilities
Optimised plate design with asymmetric channel configuration provides maximum efficiency in demanding heating and cooling applications
AlfaFusion is a breakthrough manufacturing technique that combines improved hygiene and corrosion resistance with the high efficiency and compact footprint of a brazed plate heat exchanger. By enabling a full stainless steel construction, our fusion-bonded AlfaNova heat exchangers can be used in installations normally reserved for conventional semi-welded and welded technologies. They are also a confident choice when the prime focus is on cleanliness, such as in clean water refrigeration and tap water heating systems.
Gasketed Plate-and-Frame Heat Exchangers
Our gasketed plate heat exchangers are optimising heat transfer by large surfaces of corrugated plates drawing heat from one gas or liquid to the other. The high efficiency and an 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.
Highest thermal efficiency and close temperature approach
Compact units – space saving, easy to service and maintain
Maximum uptime – less fouling, stress, wear and corrosion
Flexible – easy to adapt to changed duty requirements
The Hygienic range for food, beverage and pharma applications means you buy into reduced cost of ownership and increased efficiency and safety.
Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers
Our shell and tube heat exchangers are used in many comfort and industry applications for heating and cooling fluids. They consist of a shell with traditional plain tubes or enhanced surface tubes for high thermal performance. The fluids can be liquids or gases, one of which flows inside the tubes while the other flows outside the tubes within the shell. There are single-phase or two-phase heat exchangers, and the latter is used to either boil or condense fluids.
The Pharmaline offers superior materials and hygienic design, embodying decades of experience in pharma.
Double-tube sheet(DTS) avoids risk of cross-contamination
Very low risk for cracks and thermal fatigue as U-shaped tubes accommodate thermal expansion
Fully drainable heat exchanger, no dead areas and seamless, smooth crevice-free design with max 0,5µm surface roughness
Fully customizable owing to smart flexible design of feet and mounting options
Small footprint – U-tubes decrease the length of our hygienic heat exchanger by half
Our Viscoline is for viscous food, offering a series of highly efficient heat exchangers that have been designed to handle your food processes in the most gentle manner.
The heat exchanger selector tool
Industrial Trading Solutions can provide you with the technical knowhow and support you need to choose the right Heat Exchanger for your application, and to make that process even easier, our in-house selector tool makes it quicker than ever to get the product and application knowledge needed to find your ideal heat exchanger. Just answer a few short questions and we can provide a customised recommendation to meet your unique needs. The tool currently covers products for design pressures up to 100 bar and design temperatures up to 450° C.
For more information on Heat Exchangers for Hygienic Applications, download the product brochure here: Download Here
If you would like to speak with one of our Technical Sales Team or have questions about an application requirement, please contact Industrial Trading Solutions to discuss or visit our website – www.industrialtradingsolutions.com
We know that Breweries rely on quality equipment to ensure the brewing production process flows efficiently and under the right conditions. This makes certain the distinctive taste and consistency of the product is not at all compromised.
Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd supply leading hygienic flow equipment for the brewing process and offer ongoing technical support, maintenance and servicing assistance.
Products include:
Valves
Pumps
Sampling
Tank Equipment
Heat Exchangers
Cleaning Equipment
Scandi-Brew
Spares
We make sure that there are no compromises made regarding the tools of your trade, especially when the equipment you use is as important as the ingredients you put into them!
Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd are pleased to introduce you to a new addition to the Mouvex H-Flow Series of Seal-less Eccentric Disc Pumps – the H-FLO 25 in stainless-steel construction, ideally suited for hygienic applications requiring high sanitary standards.
Specially engineered to provide premium performance in critical hygienic applications, this new model provides flow rates up to 27.5 m3/h (121 gpm) with a maximum output pressure of 10 bar (145 psi).
Features & Benefits:
Ability to handle highly viscous products up to 10,000 cP
Increased offset ensures pumping of soft particles up to 14 mm (0.55″)
Tangential inlet ports and internal shapes have been designed to optimise CIP
Easy Clean System for more efficient cleaning and CIP bypass suppression
Easy maintenance thanks to a new piston locking design
Take a look at how easy the H-Flo pump is to maintain in the below Mouvex H-Flo Maintenance Video:
As UK Partner for Mouvex Hygienic Pumps, Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd not only supply pumps and other hygienic processing equipment to your door quickly, and at the right price, but can support you technically to spec the correct pump for your application, plus provide you with ongoing servicing and maintenance should you require it.
Contact us for a consultation or quotation:
Another great event hosted by the BFBI for The International Brewing & Cider Awards. Congratulations to all the Winners and those Nominated. We have come away having made some wonderful new connections and maybe just a little tipsy from the beers and ciders we were drinking throughout the day. 🙂
Tamsin has joined ITS as Regional Sales Manager and brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience in process flow products, having spent her career in the industry.
See Tamsin’s Intro Video Here:
Tamsin started working at Worthington Simpson’s as an apprentice in 1998 as the first female apprentice the company had ever taken on. (Worthington Simpson’s became IDP, which then became Flowserve). She did her apprenticeship as a fitter, building horizontal split case pumps, giving her a great introduction into what would become a constant in her life.
Working her way up into the sales office as an Applications Engineer within Flowserve, Tamsin flourished in the sales and marketing environment as the youngest person worldwide to have worked in the department at the time.
Moving on to work at KSB Pumps and Valves and then spending some time at Northern Pumps, Tamsin found herself back at Flowserve for a second time around, but on the Worcester Ball Valve side of the company. She was made redundant from Flowserve in 2016 so took up a position at Musk Engineering as a Sales Engineer, selling fluid process project solutions, until being head hunted for a position at Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd this year.
For over 20 years, Tamsin has built her expertise in process fluid handling products and has built great relationships with customers in the Food, Beverage, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Power, Oil & Gas industries, so ITS are over the moon to have her on the team to help our customers with their application requirements.
Tamsin lives in Newark as she has done for most of her lifer and is a very active person, spending time with her partner of 11 years, Steve, at the gym most evenings where they can.
We wish Tamsin all the best in her new role and hope you get to meet her very soon – if you haven’t already done so!
Welcome to the team Tamsin 🙂
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Looking for Tri-Clover Installation Equipment? We have a great selection on our April Deal of The Month with 75% off! 👀
Left Image - Nick Willetts (right) from ITS – together with Leonardo Morabito (left), Business Unit Manager Hygienic Fluid Handling UK&I - Right Image - Nick Willetts (left) from ITS with Andrew Jeans (Right), Managing Director of ITS
An innovative initiative by the Competence Development team in Kolding is tapping into the competitive spirit in Alfa Laval’s sales companies and master distributors to boost sizing and selection skills to ensure that Alfa Laval offer the most competitive pump solution which often is also the most sustainable solution from an energy efficiency perspective.
For a year now, Product Specialist Kamilla Poulsen and her colleagues have been setting a monthly design challenge – Design of the Month – which invites more than 120 engineers and technical experts around the world to take part in a friendly competition to select the optimal hygienic pump for an assignment based on a real-life, customer-specific scenario.
“The objective is to pick the right hygienic pump for each assignment and this means the most cost-efficient pump in terms of the purchase price and also in terms of running costs,” explains Kamilla. “When we factor in the pump’s energy efficiency, the cheapest pump in terms of purchase price is not always the cheapest pump. Differing global energy prices can have a significant impact on selecting the best possible pump for each application.”
The champion of champions for 2021 was Nick Willetts from Industrial Training Solutions – Alfa Laval’s master distributor in the UK. Nick won the competition three times during the year. His winning submissions of twin screw, centrifugal and circumferential piston pumps narrowly beat Christian Belletti, from Tekna Parma, in Italy, who took the top spot twice.
Feedback from the webinars in which the winning entries are presented, clearly shows that this monthly challenge is facilitating competence development and learning across the organisation.
“The standard has been very good, and we have seen it improving over time,” says Kamilla. “People are learning from the assignments and they are also becoming more familiar with our tools and configurators. In the beginning, some people had difficulties using Joules, for example, but pretty much everybody is using it now.”
Submissions responding to the monthly assignments have also enabled the Competence Development team to identify future training needs and the interest and engagement demonstrated by the regular participants, has prompted discussions on the possibilities of widening the challenge. “Perhaps including both pump and valve selection for a small system design to make it more process related,” says Kamilla.
Industrial Trading Solutions send in submissions to the competition every month from across their technical staff.
”We encourage our technical staff to take part in the design of the month competition as it helps to keep us on top of the latest technology and products, whilst also providing invaluable feedback and training opportunities along the way. We are extremely proud that Nick has shown his outstanding capabilities and knowledge in hygienic pump technology throughout the last twelve months and have recognised Nick alongside Alfa Laval for his efforts.” Andrew Jeans (Managing Director of Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd) commented.
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It’s unique design eliminates the need for sealants and is easily adapted to fit most pipe or tube diameters.
When installing the weighing system, it is possible to read the weight supported by each individual load cell. Most mixers have four legs, which means that two or four load cells can be used under the mixer – depending on the required accuracy.
Several factors can influence what type of plate heat exchanger offers the best fit for a specific duty. These can include type of media and refrigerant, design pressure, capacity needs, efficiency demands, serviceability requirements, and many more.
Every year, newly installed Alfa Laval plate heat exchangers enable customers to save 50GW of energy. That’s the same amount of energy that it takes to annually heat 10 million European homes.
