A unique factory for Duynie Ingredients

The challenge

“Support us in the design and construction of a factory and installations, which we use to convert vegetable waste streams into ingredients for pet food. We want to do this based on residual heat from the adjacent bio-energy plant”. That was Duynie Ingredients’ question to Uticon in 2017.

In such a situation, companies are waiting on all kinds of studies to be done and finalised before a factory or installation is designed and built. But Duynie Ingredients chose to switch quickly and learn by doing, also because the company did not want to pass up the possibility of collaboration with the bio-energy plant. This unique starting point made high demands on the collaboration between Duynie and Uticon.

The solution

How exactly would the drying of these waste streams take place, which raw materials would be processed and how the residual heat of the neighbour could best be used, little was known about this. In a project with so many unfamiliarity’s, it is even more important that the lines between customer and Uticon are kept short. The multidisciplinary composition of the Uticon team made it possible to implement the new and developing insights quickly and in a coordinated manner. Uticon also chose to install a dedicated project team on site during the construction phase. This intensive cooperation between Duynie, Uticon and the contractors and suppliers made this realisation possible.

The result

The result is a new factory with a building capacity of approximately 60,000 m3, and a considerable production capacity of raw materials that can be processed into the final product using residual heat. In this way, Uticon succeeded, despite all the dynamics, in continuously keeping stakeholders connected and learning from the experiences as efficiently as possible. This will remain important in the coming period.