Domino Printing Sciences, based at Bar Hill in Cambridgeshire, is celebrating winning a Queen’s Award for Innovation, in recognition of its A-Series i-Tech range of industrial continuous ink jet printers which have increased customer efficiency and driven market share growth The A-Series i-Tech range of printers have been designed utilising significant advances in innovation and technology, changing the standards of performance and operation, leading to enhancements in the cleaning and servicing of printers, handling waste, reducing ink usage and optimising print quality. The key benefits delivered by the intelligent Technology (i-Tech) ink system and electronic platform have resulted in efficient, high-performance coding with legibility at high speeds, reduced service interventions, ultra-low consumption of organic solvents – with environmental and waste-disposal benefits – and a range of innovative ink formulations that comply fully with European and global Domino offers one of the most comprehensive portfolios of complete end to end coding solutions spanning primary, secondary and tertiary applications designed to satisfy the compliance and productivity requirements of manufacturers, including those in the beverage industry. 14 BREWING & BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES BUSINESS www.enterprisetondelli.co.uk For more information visit: Domino wins Queen’s Award for Innovation Lager – the un-traditional way! Enterprise Tondelli has supplied a number of microbreweries to the craft lager sector in the UK market as part of its activity in the brewing and bottling industry. There are a number of specific features of the brew house that make it very flexible and ideally suited to produce both Pils style lager along with the full range of traditional beers too. When the four partners of the newly opened Pillars Brewery and taproom in Walthamstow London E17 embarked on their craft lager brewing enterprise they knew that it was imperative to “plough their own furrow”. With so many microbreweries and breweries in the London area producing good ales, Pillars Brewery wanted to make their own mark and they have certainly achieved this by producing their “un-traditional lager”. After three years of investigation, with visits to many breweries specialising in Pils type craft lager, and many test brews, the four partners of Pillars Brewery knew that a traditional British mash conversion system would not be the optimum solution to achieve their aims so they started a dialogue and ultimately ordered a turnkey plant from Enterprise Tondelli and its manufacturing partners in Italy Simatec Srl. This included the brew house along with vessels, kegger and all services. The brew house itself is manufactured in Turin by Messrs. Simatec Srl who started some years ago as an aspiring brewer. Not finding the technological solution they wanted in their own brewhouse to achieve the goals of low hot oxidation, increased extract performance, fresh taste profile and low filtration inspired the company to start manufacturing brew houses as well. The trend for dry hopping can cause some challenges for both costings and tank hygiene, so Simatec developed the “isobaric hop injector” or IHI for short. This unit utilised with the conditioning vessel reduces hop consumption by around 50-60%, can reduce tank time by 2 days and results in a conditioning tank easier to clean. Pillars Brewery took advantage of this device and included one in its project too. Pillars Brewery’s flagship beer “Un-traditional Lager” is produced adhering to the German purity laws but has an innovative mix of 4 hops coupled with dry hopping in the later stages. The brewhouse design from Simatec is in fact “un-traditional” too in its configu- ration. To reduce the hot oxidation the wort is transferred as few times as possible. In all of the size of equipment the wort is only transferred twice even on automatic high throughput plants. One vessel is a multipurpose vessel that acts as the mash tun, copper and whirlpool whilst the other vessel is a lauter which helps increase the extract efficiency thereby saving costs on every brew. This will allow Pillars Brewery to be even more un-traditional in its recipe formulation with fruit beers and even nuts as an ingredient. Gavin Litton, one of the founding pillars, said, “We have appreciated the experience that Enterprise has brought to the project especially with regards to the environment and other areas that a traditional supplier is not so interested in. The equipment from Italy has proved perfect for our untraditional needs and I can see that for other brewers it would have some serious advantages for them. We would recommend Enterprise Tondelli for other brewhouse projects.” Enterprise Tondelli supply modular brew houses from 3 hl to 96 hl for up to 12 brews per day along with packaging plants for bottles, cans and kegs. News PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT www.domino-uk.com For more information visit: 14_Layout 1 16/05/2017 13:43 Page 1