A specially designed double seal from AESSEAL has enabled an Italian drinks company to avoid the risk of major financial penalties which could have resulted from the release into the atmosphere of highly damaging HFC (hydrofluorocarbon) gases.
Food & Beverage Case Studies
Major US food producer opts for AES-Elast
One of the world’s leading producers of human and animal nutrition has chosen AES-Elast as the elastomer of choice for its North American operations.
AESSEAL packing guarantees highest food quality
The replacement of a competitor’s gland packing with AESSEAL’s precut food grade packing Style 745TP is saving a Portuguese food company around €6,000 a year in the cost of repair and maintenance.
Major savings for Algerian food producer
A food production plant in Algeria is saving an estimated £175,000 a year following the installation of an AESSEAL® LabTecta®OP bearing protector.
EasyClean cuts water usage at French milk plant
Installation of the EasyClean™ water management system helped French milk production company to improve its hygiene standards and reduce water usage.
Cairo company turns to LabTecta OP
The installation of the LabTecta OP bearing protection system at the Egyptian food production company NCMP (National Company for Maize Products) resulted in an immediate and dramatic improvement in reliability.
Change to packing saves Swiss company $millions
A chocolate producer in Switzerland has saved around ₣2.3 million ($2.6 million) over the past year following its decision to change to an AESSEAL® pump packing system.
AES-Elast the answer to seal selection problem
Employees at William Grant’s Scottish whisky distillery in Girvan, Ayshire, were having difficulty selecting the correct mechanical seals for specific applications.
EasyClean the answer to excessive water use
Unacceptably high water consumption was a concern for a confectionery company in northern France.
Enhanced production reliability
Failing double component seals were causing problems for a specialist food producer in eastern France.
Sweet solution for sugar producer
The installation of the AESSEAL EasyClean seal support system has led to major savings for a UK sugar company.
LabTecta solves bearing problem
A US corn milling company was having a persistent problem with the failure of its dodge pillow block bearing.
AESSEAL system aids clean-up at US feed mill
A US feed additives company reported loss of significant amounts of water due to leakage from double component seals.
Improving reliability and reducing product loss for sugar Refinery
A South African based sugar refining plant was using gland packing on two screened juice pumps and two mixed juice pumps with a quench to drain seal support system.
FDA compliant elastomer increases reliability
AES-Elast has found success in the Food & Beverage industries not just because of its FDA compliance but also because of its wide chemical compatibility and its hot water and steam performance.
LabTecta seals halt costly oil leaks
A South African company specialising in the production of animal feed was having constant problems with a leaking gearbox
Quality service and technical support for South African contract
lack of technical and service support led the South African company COFCO International to approach AESSEAL
Water and cost savings with reliability upgrade
A beer producer in South Africa was being forced by the local government to save water around their facility.
Solution delivers $17,000 inventory cost savings
ADM was dealing with a range of problems due to lack of standardisation on the pump sealing systems corn milling plants in Nebraska.
Annual savings of over $2.6 million
A food and beverage customer was experiencing high leakage and contamination in their process fluid on the single pass flow through system they were operating.
Mechanical seals runs an incredible 17 years without problems
Tongaat Hullett Sugar were un happy with the amount of maintenance required on the sealing of one of its pumps.
Seal upgrade improves mixer reliability 5200%
A corn milling facility in the UK had lip seals fitted to the shaft of a dough mixer.
A corn milling facility in the UK had lip seals fitted to the shaft of a dough mixer.
Tailored seal solution cuts costs and operational downtime
A global food and beverage manufacturer in Poland, was experiencing problems with a fan fume pumping toxic fumes as a by-product of the distilling process.
Dual Seal Upgrade saves over 17 million litres of water
A major sugar manufacturer at one of its alcohol manufacturing sites were looking to reduce the amount of water consumed on 19 critical pumps at one of its sites in South Africa.
Unique solution saves $287,000 a year and improves safety
One of the world’s largest nutrition companies was dealing with repeated downtime due to problems with clean condensate pump seals on a corn wet milling application at its plant in Illinois, USA.
Seal upgrade saves cornmill $280,000 in repairs and downtime
Cargill Corn Milling Inc was experiencing leakage on the seals of a boiler feed pump at its plant in Iowa, USA.
Reduced downtime and health & safety benefits
Cargill Corn Milling Inc was concerned about reduced operational efficiency, the risk of contamination and workforce safety due to ongoing leakage from a fibre press at its Nebraska plant.
Replacing lip seals improves reliability and saves energy
A major nutrition product producer was having problems with bearing reliability on one of its incline screw conveyors on one of its UK production facilities.
Improved reliability and reduced water consumption
A cheese dairy in Denmark were having problems with seals only lasting 3 months, and using 1,300 cubic meters of water per year on a quench to drain flush system, for 25 of their CIP pumps.
Huge Water Savings for Distillery
An alcohol distillation plant had historically used competitor single seals and previous engineers were not keen on the idea of changing to dual seals and systems.
Water Savings for South African Corn Miller
A South African corn miller had an evaportator pump that had poor reliability.
Energy Savings for Italian Corn Miller
An Italian corn miller used Clean In Place (CIP) water to cool and lubricate thier mechanical seals. This water cannot be drained to the plant depuration system but must be recirculated into the system loop with a high cost in energy in order to reheat and evaporate.
Savings all round for South African beer producer
A South African customer had an extremely low MTBF on a top entry mixer where the shaft dealing arrangement was a viton lip seal. The shaft fretting was leading to failures with a MTBF of just 48 hours.
High Pressure Vertical Mixer Processing Starch
(MTBF) of just two months on a vertical mixer processing starch at its starch and sweetener processing plant
A £40,000 repair saving over 10 years
A UK based food processing plant was having major water ingress through the vertical shaft on their cold room gearbox.
DMSC saves Nestlé Purina £182k in just 10 months
Significant savings with mechanical seal and bearing protection for the pet food manufacturer
Reducing Energy Usage and Improving Reliability
Suiker Unie were using packing to seal juice circulation pumps at their Dinteloord sugar refinery.
Upgrading component seals with M0FCA plug-in seals
One of the largest dairies in Ireland is upgrading from industry standard component type seals to AESSEAL M0FCA unitized plug-in seals after a successful 4 and a half year trial. The dairy operates 60 Fristam pumps on site and the upgrade will save the dairy around £10,000 a year.
Successfully sealing cooling tower motors at Dairy Crest
Dairy Crest Severnside has more than doubled machine life expectancy and reduced downtime, after replacing standard oil seals with LabTecta® bearing protection seals.
Eliminating a $225,000 maintenance bill
A leading food processor was experiencing problems sealing two Nash Vacuum pumps
LabTecta upgrade increases MTBF rate by over 2000%
A food and beverage manufacturer in Ireland was seeing failure rates as often as 2 months
Saving water, energy and money for a food manufacturer
16 pumps, with a quench to drain seal support system.
