Danisco Sugar prefers Tyco valves

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Oct 16, 2002

Tyco Valves and Controls has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Northern Europe's largest sugar producer.

Tyco Valves and Controls has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Northern Europe's largest sugar producer.

An audit of Tyco Valves and Controls Nordic by Danisco Sugar saw it scoring high standards in rigorous criteria including product quality, ability to supply, overall service, product development, and management systems.

Tyco was also able to demonstrate that it met Danisco's requirements as a single source supplier covering all needs, able to contribute to lower procurement costs, and deliver on a Europe-wide basis to Danisco Sugar units.

Danisco Sugar is a major Danish industrial company with annual production of more than 1.2 million tonnes of beet sugar in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Lithuania.

The company's primary customers are the food and drinks industries.

Danisco Sugar employs more than 3000 people and boasts net sales of Eur 1124 million.

The preferred supplier agreement with Tyco Valves and Controls will last for three years.

Tyco has supplied Danisco Sugar plants in Germany, Sweden, Lithuania and Denmark with products for over 20 years, including Keystone rubberlined and high performance butterfly valves, check valves and actuators, Biffi actuators, control accessories from the Avid range, Vanessa rotary process valves, Tyco and Gachot ball valves and Sempell steam isolation and safety relief valves.

The Tyco Valves and Control packages are used throughout the sugar refining process, in both utility and process applications involving media from wastewater to sugar crystals and molasses.

Should service be needed, the unique and simple design of the Keystone valves allows for a speedy overhaul.

Tyco also offers a wide range of material combinations in its products - allowing it to tailor the valve specifically to the application - and has collaborated with Danisco over specific product design.

For example, Tyco has developed pneumatic actuators with special locking devices, to prevent unintentional operation of a pneumatically operated valve.