Tapón Corona de Colombia,  Manantial Plant (Colombia)

SYNOPSIS SUMMARY

• • Location: Calera (Colombia)
  • Peak power: 170 MW
  • Technology: Zigor AVC SET DVR 150KVA
  • Commisioned: 2017
  
  

  Planta Productora de Envases de PET

  Alimentación Segura de Procesos Críticos mediante sistema Zigor DVR 150 KVA / 400V

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

  Tapón Corona de Colombia produces high quality packaging solutions within the industries PET.

  PET production machines like labelling are blow moulding machines are often affected by the electrical disturbances that occur on a power distribution system causing important losses. The adverse effects of these disturbances can be mitigated by installing power-conditioning equipment.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Significant reduction of production costs caused by machine shutdowns.
• Reduction of unproductive times due to machine shutdowns.

Description

Problem

The plant is located in rural areas exposed to electrical disturbances caused by rain, wind and trees; the generation of sags and  voltage surges were constant causing damage mainly in the blow moulding machine due to the bursting of the lamps in the ovens. Some of the adverse effects were waste of pre-form material and  variations  in the temperature of the oven and affecting our customer Coca-Cola Femsa with unproductive time.

Between 2015 and May 2017 (before the DVR was comissioned) a total of 95 halogen lamps of the blowing maching were consumed due electrical disturbances with a total cost of: $ 63’215,723 whereas from May 2017 til today  (after the Zigor DVR was comissioned) only 12 lamps where consumed with a total cost of $ 13’674.546.

Solution

After  the DVR of 150 KVA / 400V was installed, high stability in the process was achieved by reducing unproductive lines to less than 0.5%, and waste below 0.3%. The breakage of the halogen lamps of the blower were also eliminated completely.

Tapón Corona’s is unproductive times has been eliminated and is now able tod supply  high quality products to its client, Coca-Cola Femsa.

Contact Details

Fabián Ochoa Gómez
Ingeniero Desarrollo Negocios
Zigor Energy S.A.S.
Cel: (+57) 320-2370483
Tel: 7953482 Ext. 413
Carrera 14 # 99-33 Oficina 406 Torre REM
Bogotá, Colombia. Surámerica.