Meur@news 8 - Meura

November 2006
8
Dear Readers,
As always it’s a real pleasure for Meura to present you its
new Meur@news!
Through this 8 th issue we take the opportunity to introduce
you to two of our latest projects, each being proof of
our strong partnership with our customers. Indeed,
Meura’s mission is not only to supply its customers with
the best quality products but also to offer them ‘total
cost solutions’ that meet their quality, productivity and
fi nancial requirements all at the same time.
Furthermore, we are also very proud to announce our
new partnership with PRAJ Industries from India.
Indeed, always willing to offer the best solutions and
services, Meura and PRAJ Industries have decided to join
forces to offer the Indian market and surrounding
countries state-of-the-art technologies.
Together we’ll be able to deeply satisfy all our Indian
customers’ requirements!
Finally, this year again, Meura will exhibit at the Brau Beviale
in Nuremberg from the 15th to the 17th to the 17th to the 17 of November 2006 in
hall 7, booth 142-144. We will all be pleased to welcome you at
our brand new stand with a glass of good Belgian beer!
So come and visit us!
Meura, your technological partner!
Michel Genart Christian De Brackeleire
Managing Director General Manager
Traditionally pioneers since 1845
C o n t e n t s
P. 1 Welcome
P. 2 Polar
has been convinced by the Meura mash fi ltration
technology for more than 10 years!
P. 4 The Heineken Brewery
of Mons-en-Baroeul
“Total cost solution” together with state-of-the-art technology!
P. 7 Meura is expanding!
P. 8 Current News
• World Grains Summit – San Francisco (U.S.A.)
• Vietnam
• VLB - Moscow (Russia)
• China Brew and Beverage – Beijing (China)
• AETCM – (Belgium)
The double mash fi lter
mash fi lter
of the Centro Brewery.
Rond-Point J.-B. Meura, 1 • B-7600 Péruwelz • Phone : +32 69 88 69 88 • Fax : +32 69 88 69 80 • www.meura.com

The Centro Brewery
Polar
has been convinced by the Meura
mash fi ltration technology for
more than 10 years!
With 72 % of the Venezuelan beer market, Polar can
be proud to be the leader in one of the biggest Latin
American countries in terms of beer consumption
with 80 l/capita/year. Besides their presence in
the brewing world, Polar is also a familiar name in
the food and beverage sector in general.
Concerning their entrance into the brewing world, the story of the
Polar Company goes back to 1938. One year later, they erected their fi rst
brewery plant. Since this date, Polar has never stopped developing and
today it operates four breweries in Venezuela, namely: the Centro Brewery
located in San Joaquin, the Los Cortijos Brewery located in Caracas, the
Modelo Brewery located in Maracaibo and the Oriente Brewery,
located in Barcelona.
Over the years, Polar has made large investments in beer
and malt production plants in order to keep up
with growing demand. Willing to offer the
best quality products to their consumers,
Polar has always wanted to use state-ofthe-art
technologies. That’s why Polar
adopted the mash fi lter
back in the early nineties.
Polar and the
mash fi lters
Beer quality being a priority, Polar turned to Meura
when they had to expand their capacity.
•The Centro Brewery:
In 1992, the Centro Brewery of San Joaquin installed a double
mash fi lter with a total capacity of 22 tons. At that time
the Centro Brewery was producing about 6 million hl/ year. Year after
year, Polar continued to grow in the beer sector, which forced them to
continue investing in order to be able to meet an increasing demand
for their products. In 2004 and in 2005, Polar invested in a second and
third double mash fi lter both with the same capacity as
the fi rst one. Today, the Centro Brewery is assured of a capacity of 11 mil-
lion hl/ year thanks to its 3 brewhouse lines, each one equipped with a
double mash fi lter.
Besides the mash fi lter, Polar has also opted for Meura’s
Carbomill technology and ordered two Meura CARBO with a
capacity of 20 tons/h each. The CARBO is indeed the ideal complement
to the . The CARBO , as the ,
leads to the production of a clear wort with low fatty acid content and
a higher yield, at least equal to the laboratory yield. In addition, the
CARBO has the specifi cations for working in a CO CO2 atmosphere
in order to assure a non-oxidized fi ne grinding, which improves the
mash fi lterability as well as the fl avour stability of the beer.
• The Los Cortijos Brewery :
The Los Cortijos Brewery worked with 4 lauter tuns
dated from the 1950s. Using different types of malt, the lauter tun
had several well-known disadvantages (insuffi cient productivity and
high losses of extract yield). To counter these disadvantages, Polar
changed its technology to the mash fi lter. In 2004, the
Los Cortijos Brewery replaced two lauter tuns by a mash
fi lter with a total capacity of 9.1 tons. Again in 2006, Polar decided to
replace its last two lauter tuns by a new mash fi lter.
As in San Joaquin, Polar bought in addition a 12 tons/hour
CARBO to assure the obtaining of a non-oxidized fi ne grinding. The
Los Cortijos Brewery now runs at full capacity with the
mash fi ltration technology.
Whether it was to replace the existing lauter tuns or for a brand new
installation, Polar has always trusted in Meura and given them the
responsibility for all those changes. Convinced by Meura, Polar has now
adopted the mash fi ltration technology-associated with
the CARBO - which has become their new standard.
Conclusion:
How does the CARBO work?
The
mash fi lter of the Los
Cortijos Brewery.
Polar, a well-known company, has made the production of good
quality products its priority. To achieve this, Polar has put its faith
in Meura’s technologies. We would like to take this opportunity to
thank them for their continued trust in Meura and to congratulate
Polar on their continued success.
The CARBO consists of a rotor made of plates with pins to carry the hammers. Grinding is a result
of impact between the hammers and the particles that are propelled onto the breaking-plates. Prior to
start-up, the CO2 (or N2) is injected in the grist bin to provide a gas blanket.
During milling, the malt grist falls into the grist bin and pushes the CO2 back through the hammer mill and
the malt feeding system. In this way, the air surrounding the malt grains is replaced by the gas, protecting the
malt grains from oxidation before entering the mill. The milling itself also occurs under a CO2 atmosphere.
The malt grist then falls directly into the grist bin where it can be stored under CO2 between brews.
During the emptying of the grist bin CO2 is injected into it to replace the grist.
The CARBO of the Centro Brewery.
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Offi cial inauguration, June 2006.
The Heineken
Brewery of
Mons-en-Baroeul
“Total cost solution” together with
state-of-the-art technology!
This year Meura successfully modernised the brewhouse of the Heineken
Brewery in Mons-en-Baroeul in the North of France. This brewery is one of
the Heineken plants in France and produces about 3 million hl of beer per
year. The brands produced are Heineken, “33” Export, Pelforth, Edelweiss,
George Killian’s, ...
Project:
Meura proposal:
A major operational disadvantage of the original tender, which
included 2 lauter tuns, was that 2 separate brewhouse lines were still
needed. This required more equipment.
After having analysed the tender, Meura found an alternative solution
and proposed to limit the new equipment to a mill, a mash tun,
a mash fi lter, a hot wort tank, a wort cooler
and a cold wort tank. This proposal not only suited Heineken’s fi nancial
requirements but also represented an optimum solution in terms of
technology and quality.
What did this proposal consist of?
The milling department : the brewhouse from 1988 was equipped
with two 6-roll mills demanding regular maintenance. Meura proposed
to install a 19 tons/hour Classicmill for producing fi ne grist
for the mash fi lter, which provides a higher yield of about 2% with
low wort turbidity.
Mash fi ltration : instead of two lauter tuns at 8 brews/day, Meura
proposed one mash fi lter. This solution
offers several technical, quality and process advantages. It permits:
a. one brewhouse line compared to the two lines planned.
b. simplifi cation of the automation.
c. simplifi cation of the total installation by removing the weak
wort tank and the holding vessels.
d. reduction of at least 1 to 2 % the extract losses coming from the
lauter tuns.
Before the modernisation, this brewery operated two
brewhouses. The fi rst one was a copper brewhouse
installed by Meura in 1928. In 1972, about 45 years
later, Meura equipped this brewhouse with a
mash fi lter. The second brewhouse, dating from
1988 was equipped with one lauter tun made
by a German supplier and produced about 8
brews/day.
In order to improve further the general level
of effi ciency, the brewery planned to
close down brewhouse 1 and to transfer its
production to brewhouse 2. As a consequence
the capacity of the second brewhouse had to
be doubled in order to achieve a fi nal installed
capacity of about 4.6 million hl of beer per year.
In 2004 the Heineken Brewery of Mons-en-Baroeul invited various suppliers to submit tender offers. At that time, each brewhouse was producing 6-8
brews/day with volumes varying between 750 and 950 hl cold wort, depending on the brand.
The brewery initially planned to install a second lauter tun also with a capacity of 8 brews/day in the stainless steel brewhouse 2 of 1988, in order to
attain a total of 16 brews/day. To maintain this productivity, several items of equipment had to be added, namely a new grist bin for the milling plant,
an additional mash tun, 2 holding vessels, a wort stripping, a wort cooler as well as a cold wort tank.
Nevertheless, according to the specifi cations in the tender, the brewery was open to any technological alternatives provided that it had an attractive total
cost and maintained or improved the quality of the fi nal product.
e. improvement of the wort quality. Indeed, the
mash fi lter guarantees simultaneously
a high productivity of 15.6 brews/day, a high extract yield,
which is at least equal to laboratory yield, a very bright wort with
an Imhoff < 5ml/l and a high gravity wort with 17.5°P cold wort.
Figure 1 : : Acceptance brew for the
dated from the 24th of August 2006
Steps
(minutes)
Brews
Brew
n°1072
Brew
n°1073
Brew n°
1074
Filling 9 8 8
Filtration 24 20 17
Pre-compression 5 8 7
Sparging 45 49 46
Compression 9 10 10
Emptying 4 5 4
Discharging 11 12 10
Total time 107 112 102
To reach the 15,6 brews/day, which means having cycle time of
93 minutes, the fi lling time will be reduced to 5 minutes and the
sparging time will be reduced to 35 to 40 minutes.
f. reduction of the water consumption compared to the lauter tuns.
g. reduction of heating energy. As the
produces high gravity wort, the weak wort tank becomes
unnecessary. Moreover, boiling requires less energy because of
the high density wort.
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h. completion of the wort stripping technology installed by Heineken.
Indeed, the combination of the mash fi lter
with the wort stripper is the ideal one in terms of wort quality
and energy saving. With the mash fi lter,
the fi nal wort gravity can be attained at the outlet of the wort stripping
without requiring traditional evaporation during boiling.
i. reduction of maintenance and cleaning
j. increased fl exibility. The mash fi lter is a
double one, which is equipped with two times 48 chambers and
extensible to 54. This gives the Heineken Brewery of Mons-en-Baroeul
a higher fl exibility for future extension.
All these changes certainly have an impact on the fi nancial aspect. The
Meura proposal is a “total cost solution”. Although the initial investment
is slightly higher, the total operating cost is much lower. By increasing the
extract yield Meura’s concept can guarantee the brewery the highest OBY.
The Heineken verdict
Meura had a different solution compared to the tender and
to the other suppliers, but after a detailed study of the invest-
ment, Heineken chose the Meura solution and confi rmed its
order at the end of May 2005.
The installation work was spread over one year, and the offi
cial inauguration took place at the brewery in June 2006.
After several months of brewing, Heineken is now confi rming
the benefi ts realised thanks to the Meura equipment.
Conclusion
This project is the existing proof that state-of-the-art
technology and reasonable investment can work together!
Indeed, thanks to the Meura solution, the Heineken Brewery
of Mons-en-Baroeul has the high technology at its disposal,
which guarantees a high extract yield while having the
lowest total cost. Moreover, this solution allows the brewery
to work with higher wort density, which is already planned
for the future.
Through these words we should like to thank Heineken for
having once again put its faith in Meura’s technologies and
know-how!
Meura is expanding!
Making customer satisfaction its priority,
Meura strengthened its After-Sales Service Department (A.S.S.D.)
Bruno Bonacchelli,
Bonacchelli
A.S.S.D. Manager
Marcel Pluquet, Pluquet Spare parts
and quotation services
David Bral, Purchase
and logistics
Olivier Simal, Simal
Audit Services
Catherine Badts, Badts Spare parts
and quotation services
Partnership agreement between Meura and Praj Industries
Meura and Praj Industries (Pune, India) have signed a
partnership agreement in order to supply the Indian beer
market with the latest brewing technologies. Praj is the
leading brewery equipment company on the Indian
market.
From now on Meura and Praj are joining their
forces and comparative advantages in order
to offer the most economical and high-per-
formance technological solutions to Indian
brewers and international brewers operating in
India and the surrounding countries.
The concern of our dynamic and enthusiastic teams is
to supply to our customers the most reliable solutions
in terms of quality of the beer, productivity, extract
yield, energy savings and respect for the environment.
Contributing to the ever-renewed pleasure of high- high-
quality beer on the Indian sub-continent is the daily
challenge, indeed the passion of Meura and Praj.
From left to right : N. Ashok Babu, Praj Business Development
Manager, Jeroen Vandenbussche, Meura Sales and Marketing
Manager, Michel Genart, Meura Managing Director, Atul Mulay,
Praj Vice President and Arun Kumar A.L., Praj Sr. Engineer - Brewery.
Michel Delhaye, Delhaye Purchase
and logisitics
Albert Baeghe, Baeghe
Technician
Jacqueline Delplanche,
Delplanche
Customer accounting
Meura, one of the leaders in the brewing equipment
industry, is continuously developing.
Indeed, more and more Meura equipment and
technologies are being installed worldwide.
Considering customer satisfaction as a priority,
Meura, besides its quality services, also provides
after-sales service for existing installations.
A few months ago, as a result of an increasing
demand for after-sales service (technological
maintenance, optimization of the installations,
etc) Meura decided to reinforce its A.S.S.D.
The main objective was to provide after-sales service
adapted to each customer’s specifi c needs.
This department does not only supply spare
parts but also integrates services of audit, technological
maintenance, trouble shooting and optimization
of our customers’ facilities.
Besides, in order to meet some of its customers’
requests, Meura can also provide an SLA (Service
Level Agreement). A made-to-measure package
of services (including e.g. spare parts, technological
audit, periodical inspection, maintenance,
etc.) can be agreed on.
With this new A.S.S.D., Meura positions itself
as a technological partner and guarantees its
customers a permanent level of long-term service
quality.
For further information, please contact us:
after-sales service department:
E-mail: c.badts@meura.com
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World Grains Summit – San Francisco (U.S.A.)
From the 17 th to the 20 th of September 2006 Meura exhibited
at the WGS 2006 in San Francisco. Robert Braekeleirs, Member of
the Managing Committee, took the opportunity to give a lecture
on the “Practical Experiences of Mash Filtration on Thin Bed Filters
from Brews with all Kinds of Raw Materials”.
Jeroen Vandenbussche, Sales and Marketing Manager,
with Robert Braekeleirs, Member of the Managing Committee.
Vietnam
As from the 1 st of September
2006, Philippe Laukens has been
appointed as Meura Vietnam representative.
We would like to take this
opportunity to welcome him to the
Meura team.
Philippe Laukens, Meura Sales Representative for Vietnam.
VLB - Moscow (Russia)
From the 25 th to the 28 th
of September 2006, Benjamin
Mommens, Area Sales Manager,
and Jeroen Vandenbussche,
Sales and Marketing
Manager, took part in the VLB
seminar organized in Moscow,
Russia. At this congress,
Alexander Tronnikov, Sales
Manager of Meura Moscow,
held a lecture on the “Latest
Developments in Thin Bed
Membrane Equipped Mash
Filtration”.
Alexander Tronnikov,
Sales Manager of Meura,
giving a lecture.
Rond-Point J.-B. Meura, 1 • B-7600 Péruwelz
Phone : +32 69 88 69 88 • Fax : +32 69 88 69 80
www.meura.com • E-mail : Sales@meura.com
Publisher : MEURA
China Brew and Beverage – Beijing (China)
Meura took part in the China Brew and Beverage Fair
organized in Beijing, China, from the 5 th to the 9 th of September.
Guy Depraetere, Area Sales Manager, represented Meura together
with his colleagues from the Shanghai offi ce.
Guy Depraetere, Meura Area Sales Manager.
AETCM (Belgium)
From the 26 th to the 28 th of June, Meura hosted the fi nal-year
students of the AETCM school of Madrid. During those three days Raul
Martinez, Area Sales Manager and Bénédicte Everaert, Sales Assistant,
helped them discover the different ways of brewing by visiting some
famous breweries. We would like to take this opportunity to wish them
all good luck in their brewing career!
The group visiting Meura Technologies in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Editorial Department :
• Editors-in-Chief :
- Michel GENART, Managing Director
- Christian DE BRACKELEIRE, General Manager
• Managing Editor :
- Françoise LOMBAERDE,
Marketing Communication Assistant
• Design, layout & printing : - Losfeld • Belgium