When Cranswick Country Foods Fresh Poultry were looking for a new centrifuge to increase capacity and processing efficiency on the waste water treatment plant at their Yaxley production plant, they turned to the Hiller model DP45-422VAHYAC centrifuge from MSE Hiller.
Cranswick’s old centrifuge system had become mechanically unreliable, difficult to maintain and was no longer able to keep up with the site’s increasing production capacity requirements.
The site which can handle over a million birds per week was originally built in 2019 and more recently expanded at a cost of over £78 million.
The new centrifuge installation handles up to 10 t/hr of the sludge generated from the waste water treatment at site which ensures that the numbers of tankers and cost of haulage for disposal from site are kept to a minimum and the water treatment plant ensures a cleaned water for discharge to the local sewage treatment plant.
The centrifuge system was fitted with a fully automated stainless steel system control panel with auto wash facility, support stand, pipework, valves, flowmeters, air cooled hydraulic scroll drive and a stainless steel slide valve to discharge the dewatered cake solids into trailers mounted below the unit.
Cranswick Poultry’s Engineering manager at the site, Mr Callum Boags, commented:
“The install was carried out to a very high standard and any issues I have had since the install has been dealt with swiftly.
“I can’t speak highly enough of MSE Hiller and the people I have come across so far. The quality of the Hiller machine is Very, very good!”
