Multinational drinks producer Diageo approached us with a brief to reduce the cost of handling sludge created during the manufacturing of its Baileys Irish Cream liqueur. The company was spending vast amounts of money on transporting and disposing of wet waste.
Given the high volume of production at the site, waste removed from Diageo’s effluent by a dissolved air floatation (DAF) system resulted in large quantities of DAF sludge being produced on site.
Although this meant the DAF system was performing correctly and successfully removing contaminants from Diageo’s wastewater before discharge to improve effluent quality, it left production managers with substantial amounts of wet waste to handle.