Compressed air upgrade caters for increased jam production

Single Variety Co. produce premium range, award-winning jams and fruit preserves. Nicola Elliott is the Founder of Single Variety, and it all began at home in her kitchen. Nicola now runs the business alongside husband Ross from their Jam Factory in Bristol, where their jam team work hard to create the flavourful products.

Since taking a sweet spot in the world of jams and preserves, Single Variety have continued to grow and develop successfully. The company’s capabilities are now expanding even further as they introduce a new product range to cater for the hotel and food service industry.

In order to ensure that the compressed air powering vital parts of their production line has the correct capacity for Single Variety’s product increase – Nicola and the team reached out to their compressed air providers, Direct Air.

 

The Brief

To fulfil Single Variety’s new product range, they invested in an additional filling line to work alongside their existing one. Due to the new line and increase in production, the customer required greater capacity within their compressed air system. The compressor upgrade was the first step in the new filling line installation, and it was vital for Direct Air to get the spec just right!

 

Our Solution

Direct Air’s Area Sales Manager, Tim McGill, visited the Jam Factory to understand Single Variety’s requirements in more detail. After discussing specifications with the jam team, Tim identified that a Champion FM11 Air Station, mounted with a refrigerant dryer and receiver would best fit their requirements. The FM11 is an upsize from the FM04 compressor that was previously in place to power their first jam filling line. Single Variety were happy with the performance of their previous Champion compressor and therefore stuck with this brand.

Increasing the compressed air capacity through upsizing the compressor itself means that not only will the FM11 be powering Single Variety’s new production line, but it will also continue to supply air to the existing filling line. This will allow Single Variety to run the two filling lines simultaneously.

Within the jam filling lines that the compressed air powers in Single Variety’s factory, the applications include the automatic depositors and the capping machine. Alongside this, the compressor powers the labelling machine in the warehouse.

To ensure the new machine keeps running on top form for the jam product process, our engineers at Direct Air will continue to service and maintain the compressor in line with manufacturer recommendations.

 

Chris Parry, Single Variety’s Factory Manager commented:

“Service has always been excellent, any issues or questions we have had have always been dealt with quickly and efficiently. All members of staff that we have been in contact with are always very friendly and have done a great job from install through to sales and support.”

“Would always recommend you to other businesses!”

Tim McGill, Area Sales Manager at Direct Air commented:

“Nicola, Chris and the team were very helpful in outlining their requirements, so I was able to identify the perfect solution for them. I’m really glad we’ve been able to help out Single Variety once again and, as always, I’m looking forward to continuing working with such a great customer as their company continues to grow.”