Fire tube boiler helps caterer upgrade to single site production

Industrial process heating equipment and solutions specialist Babcock Wanson has completed a turnkey project to supply steam, via its BWD30 fire tube boiler, to cookers at IRC Cucina’s new Trafford Park centralised kitchen.
Babcock Wanson was brought in to the project at an early stage, as IRC Cucina’s General Manager, Robert Lishman explains: “This was a relocation of a complex dual site operation into a larger single site operation, post build. We moved at a pace with this project and started it without an end to end system. Consequently, as we were building the kitchen, our plans changed. With each change Babcock Wanson risk assessed, consulted with the various parties, and adapted to our plans.”
The focus of Babcock Wanson’s work at IRC Cucina’s Trafford Park site has been on the sous vide and sauce cooking equipment, which requires large volumes of steam supplied instantaneously. Babcock Wanson’s BWD30 fire tube steam boiler, with its three pass design, readily meets this need, providing high quality dry steam with availability higher than 97 per cent.
Babcock Wanson not only provided the BWD30 fire tube steam boiler, but also undertook the full mechanical installation works, completing initial studies, detailed engineering, design appraisal, installation and commissioning.
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