Founded as a tool making specialist for the manufacture of rubber sealing systems, GTI Corporation is one of the UK’s best known companies in its field, particularly within the automotive industry, and latterly within other industrial sectors including plastics and steel. Customers include several major premium-branded car manufacturers.

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 Solution

Maziak was tasked with installing 500m of c.a. (galvanised) pipework for compressed air and cooling water flow and return for presses and oiling machines in a heavily industrial area requiring robust equipment.

Two 18.5kW compressors were installed – one VSD and one fixed – to give GTI flexibility and increased energy efficiency. The company runs the VSD and, when demand increases, the fixed speed becomes the base load with the VSD topping up.

Maziak also installed two Parker Hyperchill Laser industrial process chillers for precision cooling – both HLS029s. One is installed in the new factory and the other is within an existing plant to enable the chiller line to be split in two, to correct a performance error and improve operational efficiency.

Key features of the Hyperchill Lasers include:

•  High consistency

•  Easy to install and manage

•  Low power consumption

•  High reliability

 

Maziaks delivered pipework, compressed air and chiller operations to match GTI’s state of the art new facility. The efficiency improvements in the existing plant were also significant due to the installation of a second chiller and the quality of the Parker engineering.

A Maziak Gold Service Contract now cover GTI for its chillers in addition to its compressed air system.

Squidley Singh, maintenance manager at GTI, comments: “Maziaks rose to the challenge of unconventional pipework configuration and a demanding timeframe. The quality of their work is excellent and we are delighted with the new equipment which plays a key role in our manufacturing process and which will help ensure that GTI continues to deliver a consistently high quality product to our customers in turn.