Food & Beverage

A food production plant in Algeria is saving an estimated £175,000 a year following the installation of an AESSEAL^® LabTecta^®OP bearing protector.

Installation of the EasyClean™ water management system helped French milk production company to improve its hygiene standards and reduce water usage.

Employees at William Grant’s Scottish whisky distillery in Girvan, Ayshire, were having difficulty selecting the correct mechanical seals for specific applications.

Unacceptably high water consumption was a concern for a confectionery company in northern France.

The installation of the AESSEAL EasyClean seal support system has led to major savings for a UK sugar company.

A US corn milling company was having a persistent problem with the failure of its dodge pillow block bearing.

A US feed additives company reported loss of significant amounts of water due to leakage from double component seals.

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.

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.

A South African company specialising in the production of animal feed was having constant problems with a leaking gearbox

lack of technical and service support led the South African company COFCO International to approach AESSEAL

A beer producer in South Africa was being forced by the local government to save water around their facility.

ADM was dealing with a range of problems due to lack of standardisation on the pump sealing systems corn milling plants in Nebraska.

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.

Tongaat Hullett Sugar were un happy with the amount of maintenance required on the sealing of one of its pumps.

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.

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.

Cargill Corn Milling Inc was experiencing leakage on the seals of a boiler feed pump at its plant in Iowa, USA.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A South African corn miller had an evaportator pump that had poor reliability.

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.

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.

(MTBF) of just two months on a vertical mixer processing starch at its starch and sweetener processing plant

A UK based food processing plant was having major water ingress through the vertical shaft on their cold room gearbox.

Significant savings with mechanical seal and bearing protection for the pet food manufacturer

Suiker Unie were using packing to seal juice circulation pumps at their Dinteloord sugar refinery.

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.

Dairy Crest Severnside has more than doubled machine life expectancy and reduced downtime, after replacing standard oil seals with LabTecta^® bearing protection seals.

A leading food processor was experiencing problems sealing two Nash Vacuum pumps

A food and beverage manufacturer in Ireland was seeing failure rates as often as 2 months

16 pumps, with a quench to drain seal support system.