Craft Beer Company for Brewdog Brewery
Scotland, UK
In a tough environment like the brewing industry, high operating temperatures and fibrous hop sludge, can play havoc with pump equipment if it’s not specified correctly. So, when revolutionary Scottish craft brewers, Brewdog were looking for a reliable and robust pump solution, it turned to Filpumps and Xylem for the answer.
For the brewery team in Ellon, Aberdeen, there were two key issues with the existing pump system, resulting in increased costs and downtime needing a quick resolution. In the first instance, the fibrous quality of hop sludge was threatening to cause build-ups and blockages at the base of the conventional, flat-bottomed, packaged pump station – causing delays to the brewing cycle with plant downtime and expensive tankering costs. Secondly, where the effects of high temperature on pumps and float switches had not been considered during specification of the existing system, there was a real risk to its efficient and effective operation.
