One of our clients located in the Moerdijk industrial area had developed a project to further enhance their plant safety. Among other aspects, changing gearboxes and motors and improving production hall ventilation were specifically targeted. Prove Engineering was asked to provide project management support and manage the installation on site. Working with SPIE and Ralton…
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It´s hard to believe, but on June 8th it´s 5 years already since Elwin, and I set sail on this joint venture called Prove Engineering. They say that time flies when you´re having fun, so I suppose it´s no surprise that it only feels like yesterday that we signed the founding paperwork for Prove Engineering.…
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Dutch cuisine probably wouldn’t rank high on a global culinary hitlist if such a list were to exist. We might win our fellow Earthlings over with our pastries, like ‘stroopwafels’ or ‘poffertjes’ or the chocolate sprinkles that we put on our sandwiches, but ‘hutspot klapstuk’, ‘boerenkool met worst’ en ‘Hollandse Nieuwe’ require advanced taste bud…
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Most if not all manufacturers of foods and food ingredients will claim that their product is safe and that it has been manufactured by a food safety-controlled process. After all, how can one assure foods or food ingredients are safe if the production method used to make them, is not controlled? To help food (ingredient)…
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Most of us will have played with toy boats in the bathtub or in a nearby stream at one time or another. Some of us may have taken up sailing later in life based on those first experiences, and others may have lost interest, but anyone that has ever played with a toy boat will…
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Being active in manufacturing food emulsifiers, one of our clients has multiple finishing lines and multiple packaging formats. Two of these finishing lines, a spray chiller and a flaker/mill, have outlets to their own 25 kg packing lines and a joint BigBag filling line. The process routes to this joint BigBag filling system are relatively…
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A client active in the pharmaceutical industry has a supreme patented technology to isolate omega-3 fatty acids from fish oils. This technology, however, is less selective in the removal of certain natural impurities, preventing them from reaching the highest purity standard or achieving this standard only at a lower capacity. Following patent research and extensive…
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One of our clients, active in the emulsifier industry, has asked Prove to expand its finishing capabilities by installing a new liquid fill system. The new system should be able to fill IBCs and drums and needs to be fully integrated with the client’s PLC. After consulting the client’s technical and production staff and several…
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A plant is properly designed when the most expensive process step is being used to its full capacity. For example, an expensive reactor, which has a thermal oil system running to heat it up, a vacuum system sucking out the air to increase the distillation rate and has an operator on shift 24/7 to run…
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