Guinness chooses APV for their plant re-development
APV Enquiry 305
Somewhere in the region of 10m glasses of Guinness are consumed each day across the world. And why not, "Guinness is good for you", as the advertising slogan used to say. Guinness, now part of the Diageo group, has been brewed in Ireland since 1759 and today it is consumed in 150 different countries. Continued growth has meant the re-development of Guinness’s Waterford site in Ireland, which required completion within a very tight time-scale.
Somewhere in the region of 10m glasses of Guinness are consumed each day across the world. And why not, "Guinness is good for you", as the advertising slogan used to say. Guinness, now part of the Diageo group, has been brewed in Ireland since 1759 and today it is consumed in 150 different countries. Continued growth has meant the re-development of Guinness’s Waterford site in Ireland, which required completion within a very tight time-scale.
Guinness had a comprehensive qualification process for assessing potential suppliers, which was overseen by their experienced team. APVī™s unique blend of applicable recent experience combined with the brewing knowledge displayed during the bid presentations, its single vessel yeast propagation technology, broad range of world-class equipment and local presence backed by large international resources were some of the main reasons that APV® was selected.
APV has successfully built two major world-class breweries in recent years, in Thailand and South Africa. The latter was at Port Elizabeth where APV met the very tight 10 month deadline, with the first brew being produced in August 2000. This plant incorporated the use of a single vessel yeast propagation system. Its successful implementation and the meeting of the tight project time-scale were excellent credentials for APV in the eyes of Guinness.
The single tank yeast system has seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years and was proposed by APV for use at Waterford. To meet with Guinness’ high standards of hygiene for this plant, APV optimised the cleaning and sterilisation regimes for the yeast propagation system to ensure the production of high quality yeast.
The scope of supply provided by APV included pumps, valves, heat exchangers and automation. APVī™s rotary lobe pumps, high efficiency centrifugal pumps and self-priming pumps are all designed to reduce production costs, create a quieter working environment, bring reliability to the production process and ensure an improved quality end product. Product integrity is important to Guinness and APV demonstrated their ability to support this with their choice of valves and heat exchangers.
The valve portfolio includes valves from APVī™s comprehensive range of butterfly, single-seat and double-seat units. These have all been designed to meet customers’ priorities of problem free product flow, leakage free, safe separation of fluids and easy cleaning.
Heat exchangers utilising APVī™s duo safety plates have been used on heating and cooling applications where the possibility of product integrity is of concern. Each duo-plate consists of a pair of special non-welded plates back to back with the leak path between them open to atmosphere. This protects the product from the service medium in the eventuality of plate leaks caused by cracks or corrosion, giving Guinness the security and peace of mind they required.
APV has an international network of brewery expertise, which has successfully installed a number of major plants worldwide. This provided Guinness with the assurances they sought.
