Sustainability Case Studies

  1. Brand Spirits Leader Digitizes Business Operations With The SIMATIC IT Suite 1/7/2021

    Gruppo Campari closed 26 acquisitions in the spirits industry in the past two decades to become the world’s sixth player, with over 50 premium and super-premium brands. With each acquisition, Gruppo Campari needs to integrate new products, plants and assets into its operations management systems. By 2012 they realized there was no standard workflow for document authoring and validation, and information was shared via email or phone. Using Siemens technology, Gruppo Campari has created a unified repository for all product specifications and increased the efficiency of product development and manufacturing processes.

  2. TASKMASTER® Grinder Contributes to BioFuel Production 11/29/2020

    The Meadowbrook Dairy in El Mirage, California is part of a growing alternative energy initiative -the production of energy from renewable sources. In this example, the renewable source is manure provided by the dairy’s 2000 cows. Each day, 20,000 gallons of manure are collected, deposited and processed in an anaerobic digester. Methane is released which fuels a turbine that generates electricity. Enough power is generated to meet most of the daily needs of the 159 acre dairy.

  3. The DELUMPER®: A Sweet Success At ADM 11/29/2020

    ADM Cocoa Plant in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania needed help with their cocoa bean production. The plant processes two and a half million pounds of cocoa beans each day, turning them into cocoa powder, cocoa butter, and chocolate liquor. The company needed a machine to process sugar with over-sized lumps that could occur in transport or storage. Unless these agglomerated clumps were reduced to a granular form, the process could not work dependably. The machine also had to handle the large quantity of sugar processed daily and be sanitary.

  4. Drew's LLC Installs Eriez Liquid Metal Detectors To Detect Any Metal Contaminants During Processing 11/12/2020

    To remain competitive in the demanding and highly-scrutinized food industry, Drew’s achieved certification from the Safe Quality Food Institute in meeting the SQF 2000 Code of Food Safety. With the two Eriez Metal Detectors in place, Drew’s has double protection against any sort of metal particulate reaching customers.

  5. Calcium Hypochlorite Feeder Selected As Primary Solution For Municipal Water Treatment Plants 10/23/2020

    Long Beach Township is the largest town on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. With 18 miles of beaches, the town is a major tourist destination. Population exploded during the summer months from approximately 3,000 to over 100,000. This can be a challenge for the town's drinking water facilities, with demand increasing exponentially during the tourist season.

  6. Byers Gains Stable Chlorination And Reduced Maintenance With Constant Chlor® MC5 System 10/23/2020

    Byers is an unincorporated rural community in Arapahoe County, Colorado, approximately 50 miles east of Denver. Byers Water & Sanitation District provides drinking water to this area. The district operates five wells – each approximately 700 feet deep. Two wells are typically used in the winter and four in the summer. Annual water use averages 140,000 gallons per day for the district’s 500 active service connections.

  7. Milk Receiving And Cream Load Out Metering 6/22/2020

    Entrained micro bubbles in the milk cause measurement challenges. Discover a mass flowmeter solution which ensures accurate measurement of milk received or cream outload.

  8. Inline Weighing Technology Offers Additional Quality Check Features 6/10/2020

    Alongside weight monitoring, the checkweigher used at Protina Pharmazeutische GmbH offers other important functions that support the company's system of strict quality management.

  9. Nutritional Medicine Manufacturer Installs Two Line Checkweigher To Keep Up With Demand 6/10/2020

    Orthomol pharmazeutische Vertriebs GmbH develops and markets an extensive range of food supplements. Annually over 50 million pouches and 12 million drink bottles leave the premises. A new two-lane C35 AdvancedLine checkweigher excels in high weighing accuracy and throughput, and its versatile product handling features can be flexibly adapted to changing requirements in Orthomol's production lines.

  10. Nutraceutical Firm Maximizes Product Quality With X-Ray Inspection System 6/10/2020

    Health Specialties Manufacturing produces probiotics, enzymes, vitamins and joint-muscle blends including liquid and powder blends and a variety of packaging sizes and formats. They installed an x-ray inspection system that ensures they protect product quality.