The decision provides KPL with the flexibility to meet future growth and follows an extensive plant operation review that included undertaking an iiTrak system energy audit.
KPL designs and manufactures bespoke thermoformed plastic packaging for the food industry and supplies a range of products that are available with different microwaveable and freezable characteristics, as well as environmentally friendly options.
The company undertook a review of its plant operations with the aim of improving efficiency and saving on costs following an upturn in business opportunities.
Explains KPL works manager Dale Gunn: “As a bespoke producer we rely on and take pride in our state-of-the art thermoforming equipment, which combined with our expertise in design, tool making and production, enables us to offer some of the most competitive plastic packaging products in the marketplace.”
Atlas Copco was called on to carry out an iiTrak system energy audit to check the load cycle profile for each compressor in KPL’s system. The recommendation was to install a 90 kW Atlas Copco GA90 VSD rotary screw compressor with air quality ancillaries.
Adds Gunn: “Atlas Copco was brilliant from the start, monitoring our existing equipment and recommending a new system that could operate on a lower pressure band yet provide adequate volume for any future expansion of our production output. The energy savings we’ve gained from the new installation have been even greater than originally predicted and are now estimated to be in the region of £47,000 per year.”
Kingsmoor Packaging installs new compressor from Atlas Copco
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Somerset-based Kingsmoor Packaging Ltd. (KPL) has increased production capacity and improved its energy efficiency in the process after installing a GA90 VSD compressor from Atlas Copco.
