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Nudie ups production due to chiller unit upgrade: Case Study

Nudie juice has kept production running whilst it updated its chiller unit by using a low temperature chiller rental.

The Situation

Under the advisement of Nudie's refrigeration partner, Nudie were informed that upgrades needed to be carried out on their chiller unit in order for them to be able to keep up with their usual summer demand.

“Our juice manufacturing equipment needs to be kept at sub zero temperatures,” said Tobias Dunn, Production Manager, Nudie Juice. “We do this through the use of a chiller system which utilises two separate circuits. We were unable to switch off one of the circuits to work on the other independently as with our constant demand and through put, the system simply wouldn’t keep up.”

“To keep production running whilst also carrying out the necessary upgrades so we could push through summer at full production we needed a supplementary chiller immediately. We rang our refrigeration partner, Amertec, who then rang Active Air Rentals.”

The Solution

The Active Air Rentals team installed a 220 kW low temperature chiller and 200 kVA generator.

“The site was really tight. We had to place the temporary chiller system parallel to the permanent system, which is right near the delivery bay, so there was no room for error,” said NSW State Manager, James Quintal.

“We installed the temporary chiller as a gravity fed system; pumping our chilled water into the top of their cooling tank with a flange system at the base to draw out the warm water and feed it back into our temporary chiller.”

The Results

The temporary system enabled Dunn and his team to upgrade the permanent chiller with no production down time and increased capacity moving into summer.

 

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