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Key Considerations Before Specifying Your Mixer
Before you commit to a mixer, are you sure it’s truly the right fit for your process? Specifying a mixer is more than ticking boxes; it shapes performance, compliance, and long-term reliability – all hinge on the details engineers often overlook. Even small decisions such as impeller type, tank geometry,...
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Major Project Spotlight: Bespoke Ducting Solution for a Key Motorsport Team
When a leading motor racing team set out to launch a new site, they faced a complex challenge: integrating a major wind tunnel system into a highly constrained space. That is where ITS stepped in. Working closely with our Technical Sales Expert and MD, Nick Willetts, the focus was clear:...
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Fix the Weak Point in Your Cooling System
🧠Did you know a cooling system is only as reliable as the filtration protecting it? Let us explain – when debris builds up, the effects appear quickly: clogged equipment, higher energy consumption, and increasing maintenance demands. 📖 Short case story: One customer operating at around 90 m³ per hour upgraded...
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Smarter Pipelines, Cleaner Planet: How LIAG® Pigging Drives Sustainable Operations
Sustainability isn’t just about new energy. It’s also about smarter infrastructure. LIAG® highlights pigging as one of the most practical ways to make pipelines more sustainable today. Pigging is the process of sending devices through pipelines to clean, separate, or inspect. It improves flow efficiency, reduces energy demand, and lowers...
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How Digitisation Is Transforming Hygienic Processing Plants
In industries where cleanliness is non-negotiable – food and beverage, dairy, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and personal care – hygienic processing plants sit at the heart of operational integrity. Today, digitisation is reshaping these environments, enabling safer production, greater efficiency, and smarter compliance. For companies across Ireland and beyond, including those working...
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📃⚙️ITS Inspection Checklist: Is Your Pipework Audit-Ready?
In the food and beverage production industry, pipework is not just infrastructure. It is a critical part of your compliance and food safety controls. Whether you are preparing for a routine review or a formal audit under BRCGS, SALSA, or HACCP, your process pipework must clearly demonstrate hygiene, integrity, and...
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Clear Pipes, Better Dairy: Turbidity Sensors Improving Dairy Production🐮
In dairy manufacturing, what you cannot see in a pipeline can cost you time, product and money. When milk, whey, rinse water and cleaning solutions move through the same processing lines, knowing exactly what is in the pipe at any given moment is crucial. That is where turbidity measurement comes...
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More Than Supply: Your Partner for Predictable Hygienic Manufacturing
Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd (ITS) sits at the point where hygienic manufacturing meets real-world reliability. In food and beverage plants, breweries, pharmaceutical facilities, dairy operations, and home care production sites, the difference between “it works” and “it works every shift, every day” often comes down to the quality of the...
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🛠 ITS Servicing Showcase 🛠
When pumps start vibrating enough to damage pipework, where do you start the investigation? During a recent scheduled technical assistance visit, the ITS Servicing & Maintenance team were called to attend a confectionery production site, with our partner, Alfa Laval, to investigate vibration issues affecting pumps on the production line....
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Meet Our Team – Lee Blake – Area Sales Engineer
Lee brings over twenty years of experience in engineering sales, underpinned by a strong technical foundation and a hands-on understanding of manufacturing and process industries. A dedicated and reliable technical sales professional, he has built his career on versatility, practical knowledge, and the ability to connect engineering solutions with real-world...
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ITS Flow Time Newsletter – February 2026
We’re excited to share the latest from ITS in our ITS Flow Time Newsletter – February 2026 edition. This month, we cover more technical solutions, real-life case studies, and practical guides. Dive into fresh updates and expert insights on fluid handling and hygienic processing technology. There’s plenty to explore: https://tinyurl.com/yxpm5jyj...
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📏How to Choose the Right Filter Size with HiFlux Filtration
Choosing the correct filter size is more than picking a number off a chart. It is about matching your filtration solution to the fluid characteristics, flow requirements and contamination level of your process. HiFlux filters cover a wide range, but real-world conditions determine the best size and configuration. Hygienic applications...
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See It. Stop It. Seal It. The New Standard in Leak Detection
The Alfa Laval Leakage Detection Butterfly Valve has officially landed on ITS Lite and is ready to buy online. If product safety and process integrity matter to your operation, this is a smart upgrade. Designed for hygienic applications across dairy, food, beverage, and home and personal care, it delivers secure...
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Energy-Efficient Pump Technologies for Hygienic Processing Lines
Energy costs have become one of the most visible line items in hygienic manufacturing – and pumps are often quietly doing a lot of the spending. In food & beverage, dairy, brewery, pharmaceutical and home-care production, pumps run for long hours, handle frequent product changeovers, and support CIP/SIP routines that...
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🛠ITS Servicing Showcase🛠
Ever had a valve start failing and wondered what’s really causing it? Our ITS Servicing & Maintenance team will be able to tell you after they recently carried out an ad hoc site visit at one of our beverage industry customers to inspect an Alfa Laval Mixproof Valve (MPV) that...
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KMH Products Can Lend a Hand in Your Processing Environment
When it comes to maintaining efficiency, safety, and cleanliness in demanding processing environments, the right ducting solutions make all the difference. That’s why we’re proud to continue strengthening our partnership with KMH, a trusted name in high-quality ducting systems. Recently, our Managing Director, Nick Willetts, visited KMH HQ to reinforce...
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Heat Exchanger Health: What Fouling Really Looks Like 🔎
Fouling doesn’t happen overnight. It builds up quietly, layer by layer… until performance suddenly drops off a cliff. When people hear “fouling,” they often picture a light coating or a small amount of residue. In reality, it can look like: • Thick product build-up restricting flow • Hard scale deposits...
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The Role of Mixproof Valves in Preventing Cross-Contamination
In hygienic manufacturing environments, few risks are more costly – or more avoidable – than cross-contamination. Whether you’re producing dairy products, brewing beverages, manufacturing pharmaceuticals, or handling home care liquids, protecting product integrity is non-negotiable. One of the most effective safeguards against contamination is the Mixproof valve. Often hidden...
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⚠️ Don’t Let Uncontrolled Pressure Put Your Team at Risk – Pipetite Pre-Sure™ Cap Can Help
[video width="720" height="1280" mp4="https://www.industrialtradingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Pre-sure-cap-pipetite-short-reel.mp4" loop="true" autoplay="true"][/video] 🚨 Safety incident – and it didn’t need to happen. 🚨 This video shows a real-world safety issue caused by uncontrolled pressure release, the kind of moment that happens fast and can lead to serious injury, equipment damage, downtime, and investigation costs. ✅ The...
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💷Don’t Let Product Loss Break the Piggy Bank🪙
For engineers and operations managers, efficiency isn’t just a target – it’s a KPI. Product losses in pipelines, extended CIP cycles, and lengthy changeovers directly impact yield, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, and operating costs. LIAG® LÄUFER International AG pigging system integrates into your process line to safely recover residual product, pushing...
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