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 Ground clearance was completed in a short time although the site is enormous.
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 Many of the walls and panels of the building were modular.
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 An artist's rendering of the new facility.
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 The new facility now, from the air. Currently the building is being fitted out prior to the start of operations later in 2007.
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 MidAmerica Industrial park also carried out a lot of infrastructure improvements for Gatorade.
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 Appletiser slim taper bottle which is filled at the plant.
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 New experimental variety of apple (Virginia Red) being experimented with as containing more juice than Granny Smiths and Golden Delicious.
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 Appletiser can, which is produced at the plant.
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 Virginia Red on the tree.
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 The InSQL server receives data from across the plant.
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 Monitoring production at Appletiser using the Wonderware suite.
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 Cylindro-conical steeping vessel.
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 Circular stainless steel germination vessel.
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 Combination germination vessel and drying kiln.
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 Germination vessel element of multi-stack system.
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 Two-row barley.
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 Grupo Modelo's beer Negra Modelo.
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 Grupo Modelo's number one beer Corona Extra.
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 Grupo Modelo's range of beers.
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 Coors plan for the reorganisation of production lines at Burton.
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 The new 13,000m² canning hall, ready for installation of three canning lines.
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 The South kegging line closes prior to being removed and moved to the North site.
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 Bottle line 1 has been upgraded to handle 240,000 barrels a year.
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 A KHS depalletiser has been installed on bottle line 2.
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 Soy, from which soy sauce is derived.
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 Aspergillus oryzae that acts on the nutrients of the soy to break down carbohydrate and protein, forming koji.
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 Koji is pumped to fermentation tanks where saltwater brine and yeast combine to form moromi, beginning the fermentation stage.
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 Moromi in fermentation tanks.
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 A Kikkoman employee holding a sample of koji as it appears before it is mixed with the saltwater. The koji is then transferred by a Moyno 1L12H SSQ pump to the fermentation tanks.
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 A selection of Kikkoman Foods products.
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 Fermenting room floor.
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 Artist's impression of the new brew house showing copper kettle, mash tun and square fermenters.
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 New mash tun being placed in the brew house.
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 Square fermenter being placed in the fermenting room.
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 Brakspear copper kettle after refurbishment.
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 Dropping vessels being placed as part of the double drop process.
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 Grolsch officially opened its new brewery in Enschede, Holland, in April 2004.
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 Work started on the new 120,000m² brewery complex in 2002.
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 Paroc Shadow panels being installed.
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 Computer generated rendering of the finished facility.
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 The brewery was officially opened with four production lines (two non-returnable bottle, two canned) in 2004.
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 Two more lines are still under construction - the returnable bottle line and a further can line.
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 Fuller, Smith and Turner has upgraded production facilities at its Chiswick brewery in west London.
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 Two dual-lane versions of the Innokeg Transomat Duo 3/1, operating in a parallel fashion, are able to handle the task of washing and racking the kegs.
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 Plan view of the Transomat 3/1 Duo.
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 The filler valves on the equipment (part of the DFC technology).
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 Stone Brewing Co. has grown from a micro-scale brewery run out of a garage to one housed in a $12 million specialist brewery.
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 Stone Brewing Co. produces a wide range of ales, such as Arrogant Bastard Ale and Stone India Pale Ale.
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 The brewery is designed to be run from a single computer control room and also via portable touch screen interfaces.
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 As well as the new brewery, the facility includes a visitor's centre, retail outlet and restaurant.
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 The new brewery is able to produce 200,000 barrels per year and will employ 125 personnel.
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 Holland Malt believes the plant is one of the largest and most modern barley storage and malting facilities in the world with the potential to produce over 130,000t of malt per year.
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 The plant began construction in March 2004 in the deep-sea Port of Eemshaven at a quay with loading facilities for malt and grain to be transported by ship.
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 Foundation of the two malting towers - the batch size for malt production is 440t per 12-day production cycle.
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 Construction of a malting tower – the plant can process up to 165,000t of malting barley each year.
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 The new malt house is situated in the Dutch Nort Niederlands grain belt on the North Sea coast.
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 The germination section of the facility has six floors that can each take 440t (650kg/m²); process time here is six days.
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 The plant has an annual production capacity of 130,000t and a malt storage capacity of 20,000t and a barley storage capacity of 60,000t.
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 Holland Malt has installed the Buhler PRIMUS high-capacity grain cleaner, equipped with a 30m² sand-sieve area.
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 Ecosteep system.
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 Evantually a gin still at the distillery will make Blackwood dry gin.
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 Jago vodka cream liqueur is a popular product currently produced by Blackwood.
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 This malt whisky distillery is also used as a base for growing the botanicals used in the company's white spirits such as Blackwood Nordic vodka.
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 Whisky barrels storing the malt during maturation.
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 World Spirit award 2004 for Nordic vodka.
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 The brewery building had to be modified to accommodate the new brewery.
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 The new brew house with copper vessels.
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 Brewery equipment being delivered from the Trask Brewing Company liquidation sale.
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 Serving tanks being installed into the refrigerated cooler at the brewery.
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 Twin fermentation vessels from Europe.
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 The Key Technologies Raptor Optyx system being introduced at Markham.
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 Craisins ready to be packaged.
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 Cranberries growing on the bush.
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 Craisins bagged for the consumer in a resealable pouch.
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 Fresh cranberries picked, washed and ready for processing/sorting.
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 Inside of the French and Jupps kiln.
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 The malting control room.
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 The malted grain.
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 The roaster for colouring the malt to requirements.
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 Stout which requires a dark malt.
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 A rendering of the new Diageo distillery showing the main building.
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 A rendering showing the storage vessels and processing area for spirits.
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 The rear elevation of the new distillery building.
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 One of Diageo's best selling malt brands, Cardhu.
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 One of Diageo's best selling grain whisky brands, Johnnie Walker Red Label.
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 The KHS Till equipment installed takes up a smaller footprint than the old equipment.
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 Holt supplies a range of bottled beers, some of which recently won Brewing Industry International Awards in Munich, Germany.
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 The brewer uses hops from Kent and the Midlands in the UK, as well as from Slovenia for the lagers.
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 Holt uses the finest malted barley and all beers use only natural ingredients.
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 Holt is one of the few breweries left to keg beer in hogshead barrels for certain customers.
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