HOW WE HELPED CARVILLE 
TO MAKE IT BECKER

Carville approached Becker to help reduce their energy consumption and maintenance costs.

Becker site specialists conducted a full site survey to ascertain the possibility of effectively and efficiently reducing energy consumption whilst also driving down Carville’s maintenance costs.

Previously Carville used compressed air via a simple Venturi system to generate vacuum on the machines, however, as the product mix has changed over the years the company has required a greater number of vacuum systems across many of their machines.

Generating a vacuum via a Venturi system is inefficient and puts an increasing demand on compressors. Becker advised that Carville were using significant amounts of energy in generating this compressed air and could benefit from a new central vacuum system.

Becker worked closely with Carville in designing an improved vacuum system. The new installation includes 4x BCV 300 Claw Vacuum Pumps all with integrated inverter drives. The claw technology is extremely low maintenance, which reduced annual maintenance costs significantly vs the existing compressor.

A two-phase install approach was agreed upon between both companies, which helped to minimise the disruption to the production facility and the installation itself went very smoothly.