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European
Union Coffee Improvement Programme
In a project
running to over Euro 2 million, the European Union Coffee
Improvement Programme commissioned DIAK to effect the overhaul
of 2 major coffee curing factories in one country. The largest
elements of the project involved the installation of an electronic
colour sorting system for coffee beans, comprising of a battery
of 5 machines. These were fed by vibratory feeder shutes,
and driven from a refrigerated dried pneumatic main circuit,
ending in an automatic weighing, bagging and bag stitching
system.
In another
factory where wet processing took place, the project included
the refurbishment of the boiler system, the steam engine,
and the design and supply of the complete conveying system
through each stage of the factory.
In both
factories, every element of the electrical supply system was
overhauled with new switchgear, improved fuse protection,
power factor correction and cabling, plus one thousand new
fluorescent lampgears. Thirty year old graders and catadors
were updated, and integrated with a new 10 ton per hour smout
peeler polisher facility.
Delivery
was effected from 6 ports worldwide, imported by DIAK into
the host country, and delivered 500 miles overland to site
and craned into position. There were 400 different products
involved and integrated into one project, completed on time
and on budget.
European
Development Fund
In another
region, under an award from the European Development Fund,
DIAK was awarded a contract of Euro 250,000 to re-equip a
different pair of identical state owned coffee curing factories
with every electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and process spare
part required to run both factories for a 3 year period up
to a privatisation event. The service continues today 10 years
later.
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