When Cranswick Country Foods Fresh Poultry were looking for a new centrifuge to increase sludge capacity and processing efficiency on the waste water treatment plant, they turned to the Hiller model DP45-422VAHYAC centrifuge from MSE Hiller.

The challenge

Cranswick’s old centrifuge system had become mechanically unreliable, difficult to maintain and was no longer able to keep up with the site’s increasing production capacity requirements.

Their Yaxley production plant, which can handle over a million birds per week, was originally built in 2019 and more recently expanded at a cost of over £78 million.

The solution

The new centrifuge installation handles up to 10 t/hr of the sludge generated from the waste water treatment at site. This ensures that the number of tankers and cost of haulage for disposal from site are kept to a minimum. It also allows the water treatment plant to discharge cleaned water to the local sewage treatment plant.

The centrifuge system was fitted with a fully automated stainless steel system control panel with auto wash facility, support stand, pipework, valves, flowmeters and a stainless steel slide valve to discharge the dewatered cake solids into trailers mounted below the unit.

Client feedback

Cranswick Poultry’s site engineering manager, Mr Callum Boags commented: “The install was carried out to a very high standard and any issue I have had since has been delt with swiftly and with no issues. I can’t speak highly enough of MSE Hiller and the people I have come across so far. The quality of the Hiller machine is very, very good!”