Cool way to boost productivity

Really Useful Products, is enjoying a 10% increase in productivity due to a series of solutions from IsoCool which have cut manufacturing time. In addition, an IsoFC energy saving device, which IsoCool retrofitted to the plant's existing system, is set to reduce cooling costs by more than 50% (more than £18,500 every year).

The company's mould circuit used to be cooled by a single water chiller with a 316kW cooling capacity, plus an air blast cooler for the hydraulic oil cooling circuit.

When an issue with flow capacity arose, as well as a suspected fault, IsoCool provided a solution.

Nigel Hallett, MD, says: "We installed a weir tank and separate chiller and process pump sets, with VSDs on the pumps. Due to the weir tank design, air contamination is no longer a problem as the tank self-vents the return water from the process." IsoCool also improved the mould cooling system, installing large process pumps. This has reduced cycle times on the injection moulding process.Modular design means another chiller can be added in the future.