Beverage Industry

Two stories – one about Beringer Blass Wines, the other Cooper’s Brewery – illustrate the benefits of Blucher stainless steel plumbing products in the beverage industry.

Beringer Blass bottling plant - When Blass was looking to develop a 36,000 sq m wine bottling plant in SA’s Barossa Valley, everything needed to be of the highest standard, offering reliability, flexibility and value for money.

Plumbing consulting engineer Mirek Janousek didn’t hesitate in specifying a Blucher drainage system, for him the “Rolls Royce plumbing solution”.

“This installation needed to handle very high temperatures – with water in the drainage system being up to 82C, and sometimes combined with sulphuric acid,” said Mr Janousek, from Victorian-based engineering consultancy Beca. “uPVC wouldn’t have been able to handle the heat we were looking at, and the cast iron solution was not as flexible and would have been susceptible to corrosion.
“The stainless steel option ended up being particularly cost effective due to ease of installation.” 

Cooper’s Brewery bottling plant – The story was similar for Cooper’s Brewing, when it established an entire new operation at Regency Park in Adelaide. Their drainage system in the bottling plant needed to be able to take extremes of temperature and cleaning chemicals used in the sterilisation process. ‘Clean in place’ had to be easily achievable – fast. Coopers saw the Blucher system as the best investment.

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