Project focus – Ewout Feenstra

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…

Prove Engineering @ KraftHeinz

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…

BigBag filling system

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…

Liquid-liquid extraction plant

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…

Liquid fill system

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…

Tank farm basic engineering

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…