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Energy saving from the coast

By: Roger Putman

01/08/2007

Suffolk-based brewer Adnams beat fifteen other finalists to become the overall winner of the Carbon Trust/Daily Telegraph Innovation Awards 2007. The Carbon Trust is a private company set up by the UK government in response to the threat of climate change. It works with both industry and public sectors to create practical businessfocused solutions and accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy.

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The home of smoked beer

By: Mattias Sjöberg

01/08/2007

The Southern Section of the IBD organised a study tour of German breweries using the excellent services of John White who was a guide second to none with great knowledge and enthusiasm for beer and brewing. From the 16 to 20th May 2007 20 members and guests applied themselves to the study of German brewing and beer, some in much greater detail than others!

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Updating process automation systems

By: Rampaul Persad, David Short

01/08/2007

This article is a synopsis of a May 2007 paper delivered by Rampaul Persad, Senior Brewer of Carib Breweries, to the MBAA District Convention in St Kitts and details some of the challenges, achievements and lessons from a recent project to introduce new process automation systems into an operational brewery.

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Inside one of Britain’s new super regionals

By: Ian Hornsey

01/07/2007

Being proximal to prime grain-growing country, Bury has long had a recorded association with beer and brewing, and it is one of only two towns mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book with brewers there being identified as cerevisiarii. Helston, in Cornwall is the other.

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Towards the lights-out brewery

By: Paul Buttrick

01/08/2007

The top man says ‘We’ll build a state of the art, fully automated brewery’. These have been mostly large developments, often on ‘green-field’ sites, where consolidation of facilities produces large gains in productivity and reduced overall cost. Can it be that only in such circumstances that the high cost of automation can be justified when the ‘financial gurus’ run the figures through their laptops?

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Beyond the bits and bytes

By: Roger Putman

01/08/2007

Rockwell Automation is a leading global provider of automation power, control and information solutions. It helps all sorts of manufacturers to achieve a competitive edge for their businesses. The very essence of the way Rockwell conducts its business is as a partnership with the customer so the latter is able to gain far more benefit than simply installing the grey boxes and keeping their fingers crossed that bottom line benefit will ensue. We take a look at its latest integrated suite of software called Factory Talk which sits above those grey boxes.