Central Conveyors completed a keg/cast filling system for Everards at the stunning new, 70 acre brewery (Everards Meadows) in Leicestershire, UK. 

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Everards produce a selection of ales here, including the much-loved 'Tiger Bitter'.

 

Central Conveyors Ltd were asked to design a bespoke keg and cast washing and filling line (and conveyor system) for the full production of the Everards beer brand, producing up to 90 firkins per hour. 

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What was involved in the design?

 

Specially designed system consisting off the following bespoke equipment:

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Cask/ Keg loading start off process 2 x Plastic Modular conveyor system 

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Plastic Modular conveyor 1500mm wide with guide system to allow the cask/Keg to enter the washing plant in single file

 

Cask/Keg external washers and label removal booth with automatic conveyor system      

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Gravity roller conveyor system cask accumulation area (awaiting removal by operator) to load into the Cask/Keg            

Cask 3 station Internal washing unit 4- head with 1000 Litre tank

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Mobile gravity roller unit storage for 4 casks to be used to transport casks from 4 station cask washing unit, to the filling racking machine 

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Keystone press unit 

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Cask twin head counter pressure racking /filling unit with automatic cask plastic modular, twin stand, conveyor system & arrester 

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Cask up ender, tipping mechanism 

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Cask off plastic modular conveyor system 600mm wide 

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Powered roller conveyor 2400mm long stainless steel with 3 x lift transfer units 

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Cask 2 x position automatic conveyor system 

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Keg up ender tipping mechanism    

         

Cask plastic modular conveyor system, feed from up ender tipper unit 

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Powered roller conveyor 1600mm long, stainless steel, with 1 x lift transfer unit   

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Cask control panel