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FOOD AND BEVERAGE...

Multi-tasking flow sensors help

to reduce energy consumption

Dairy cooperative ARLA Foods selected Baumer’s FlexFlow sensors for the purpose of

obtaining more detailed analysis of energy consumption during cheese production at
its Falkenberg location in Sweden, resulting in reduced energy consumption
he use of flow sensors which monitor both System Manager at Arla’s Falkenberg plant said, “In
flow velocity and the temperature of recent years we have placed an increasingly strong
mediums at critical locations in a major focus on monitoring the energy consumption of our
Tdairy processing plant have proved to be plants. However, in certain areas we simply didn’t
very significant in providing vital energy know where exactly the energy was being used.
consumption data and ultimately achieving FlexFlow®, the calorimetric flow sensor supplied by
important cost savings. Baumer helped us achieve the breakthrough. We
Arla Foods produces 20,000 tonnes of cottage installed these sensors at the neuralgic points in our
cheese every year, equivalent to 76.9 tons per day cooling and heating system and used the
satisfying most of the demand for the Swedish measurement results to obtain for the first time a
market, as well as exporting to Finland, Denmark clear picture of the energy consumption. This
and Greece. Like any progressive manufacturing helped us to establish reliable and effective
process, especially in the food industry where measures for reducing energy consumption”.
hygiene standards are critical, developing,
implementing and sustaining the most resource Long-term collaboration
efficient processes, is essential. Cooling and heating were the tricky points in energy
Commenting on their energy-efficiency consumption for Arla Foods and because of its
initiatives, Mattias Abrahamsson, Production commitment to sustainability they had already

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