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At ALECTIA, we are dedicated to providing
of new facilities and equipment to optimisation
expert consultancy that creates better bottom lines of current production, environmental issues, and better product quality for organisations all over the world. We advise our clients in all matters concerning production - from installation
management decision consultancy, and logistics. Our 700 highly skilled employees are located at our offices in Denmark, the United
Kingdom, Australia and China. Based on our specialised knowledge in the
clients achieve long-term business results and contribute to a more sustainable world.
areas of process technology, business development, buildings, water, energy and the environment, occupational health and safety, we help our
MAIN OFFICE IN DENMARK CAPABILITIES SELECTED PROJECTS
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Brewing
Within the brewing industry, ALECTIA has an impressive record in working for all the great brewers in the world. We have been involved in approx. 2,000 projects globally, and we have designed and built more than 50 new plants and carried out many complex upgrades.
Spirits and cider
Spirits and cider processing is a growing business area for ALECTIA, and we have successfully completed a substantial number of projects for manufacturers of many different products.
Soft drinks
Soft drink processing is an innovative and vibrant sector challenged by a constant demand for new products in the marketplace. ALECTIA’s dedicated team of multi-disciplined engineers offers innovative and experienced design skills to meet this challenge. We are experts within all types of products from carbonated soft drinks, juice and tea to water.
Food and dairy
ALECTIA has helped many major food and dairy companies around the world to apply modern layout process techniques to new and existing plants. We have in-depth knowledge on both solid and liquid handling of products such as milk, margarine, mustard, coffee, chocolate, yoghurt, cream, ice cream and flavourings.
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ALECTIA delivers a wide range of services, from enabling the running of your daily business,
Decision support FINANCIAL ANALYSES SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSES
supporting your major decisions with analysis
BUSINESS CASES
and data, to execution of both small and large
OPTIMISATION OF OPEX
projects. With the purpose of moving your business forward, we combine in-depth business understanding with solid technical expertise and project management know-how.
Production Structure Analysis (PSA) AUDITS AND CONDITION EVALUATION LOGISTICS MASTER PLAN AND DYNAMIC MASTER PLAN SUSTAINABILITY
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Project services ESTABLISH NEW PRODUCTION FACILITIES - CAPEX UPGRADES OF EXISTING PLANTS - BROWNFIELD MIGRATION OF SITES PROJECT MANAGEMENT TENDERING AND ENGINEERING FOLLOW-UP CONTRACT MANAGEMENT SITE MANAGEMENT CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY QUALITY ASSURANCE SIMULATION OF DESIGN INTEGRITY
Operations services TECHNICAL SERVICE AGREEMENT OPTIMISATION TROUBLE SHOOTING PROCESS PACKAGING AND WAREHOUSING PLANT AUTOMATION UTILITIES, WATER AND ENERGY WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT TRAINING AND OPERATION PRODUCT QUALITY SENSORY ANALYSES
Working with ALECTIA’s experts, you can be
ments. Our vast experience has provided us with
confident of access to the very latest knowledge
a valuable benchmark database that helps you set
and the most recent market and business develop-
the ambition for your production facilities.
ALECTIA’s highly skilled project managers ensure progress and alignment in your organisation.
Project management
ALECTIA Integrated approach
Business understanding
We know what it takes to become best-in-class in your industry.
Technical expertise
We offer in-depth advice about process engineering, packaging and warehousing, utilities, automation and civil engineering.
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Services
Decision support
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What should you do next?
ALECTIA’s Management Decision Consultancy helps you make significant decisions about new investments or improvement of your current production facilities. Our consultancy enables your organisation to act professionally and with focus on your business. Selected services 
AUDITS AND CONDITION EVALUATION
BUSINESS CASES
Based on our vast experience of optimising
We can support your strategic decisions with
production plants, ALECTIA carries out audits
facts and financials. ALECTIA’s business cases
with the goal to reduce our client’s operational
visualise and compute all benefits and risks
costs, evaluate the current condition and identify
related to your development, enabling you to
the needs and timing for investments.
make the right decisions for your business.
As an example, we have carried out a large number of utility audits, typically identifying 10-30% savings potentials on our client’s energy and water usage.
Significant savings for Türk Tuborg ALECTIA has provided consultancy for Türk Tuborg regarding the handling and reuse of waste water. Our advice has generated significant savings for the brewery, including annual savings of approx. EUR 500,000 for sludge removal due to a reduction of almost 80% of the amount of sludge.
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Production Structure Analysis (PSA)
With the ALECTIA Opex OptimusTM approach we
Is your overall production structure optimal or
can offer you lasting operational improvement
should you concentrate the production on fewer
and cost reductions. We can work with your team
and larger plants? If so, which plants should be
on known and new improvement areas and make
closed and should other plants be expanded? Or
sure that the implementation is speedy and well
should you build a greenfield plant?
designed. We put our final fee at stake on achieving the agreed outcome!
These are all questions that the ALECTIA PSA will answer by identifying the optimal long-
ALECTIA’s audit teams have identified
term production structure when evaluating the
operational cost savings of EUR 1.9 per hl
economic and technical consequences of the
produced on average.
different scenarios.
Identified and agreed cost reductions Brewery
Production mill. hl/year
Annual savings mill. (EUR)
Savings (EUR)/hl
Region
A
4.1
8.2
2.0
Americas
B
4.2
7.0
1.7
Asia Pacific
C
4.6
8.5
1.8
Asia Pacific
D
0.4
0.7
1.9
Asia Pacific
E
6.8
6.3
1.4
EMEA
LOGISTICS
MASTER PLAN AND DYNAMIC MASTER PLAN
ALECTIA is market leading within optimisation
We can create a master plan that translates your
of logistical and packaging solutions in a number
strategy into a solid plan for your production
of industries. Through innovative solutions for
assets. You can choose between the detailed
optimising processes, organisations and systems,
Master Plan or the Dynamic Master Plan which
we boost your competitive power by optimising
gives you the ability to continuously plan your
your supply chain, and thus increase the produc-
CAPEX needs in a rolling scenario.
tivity of your business.
Optimised beer production for Carlsberg UK Carlsberg has implemented a large restructuring project to optimise production at their UK brewery. ALECTIA has provided expert consultancy for all phases of the project – from business case and master plan to test and commissioning.
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Changes in climate and access to natural
ALECTIA supports your journey from defining
resources challenge strategic assumptions, tech足
strategies and assessing risks, to executing pro-
nology, and behaviour in the beer and beverage
jects with the goal to improve your environmental
industry. Establishing your green production of
footprint and lowering your costs. ALECTIA can
the future means defining your sustainability
offer the advantage of taking a 360 degree view
ambition and adopting a strategy for going from
on sustainability including the indirect and direct
best practice of today to next practice.
consequences on the product quality.
Strategy based on best available practice as well as next available practice
Client sustainability ambition
Green production of the future
Modern production facilities require co-innovation in order to apply the best available practice, and at the same time, introduce the next available practice.
Services
Project services
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From idea to operation
At ALECTIA, we support our clients from the very first ideas through to operation, ensuring that today’s plants are designed to meet tomorrow’s requirements. Selected services »
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ALECTIA’s project delivery model is a client-
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Analysis
focused delivery tool, giving you an overview
2. Business and technical analysis
Planning & Design 3. Project possibilities 4. Project definition
Change Control
fessional approach – from analysis to operation.
1. Strategic analysis
5. Project planning 6A. Detailed design 6B. Functional design
Tender & Contract 7. Tendering 8. Contract
Risk Management
The model ensures a systematic and pro-
Execution 9A. Design follow-up 9B. Follow-up on contractor design 10. Execution
Test & Acceptance 11. Test and training 12. Acceptance and hand-over
Operation 13. Operation
Project Management
of all the project phases.
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No one understands better how to plan, design
Whether you are planning a greenfield project, a
and execute CAPEX projects than ALECTIA.
major upgrade of your existing plants, or migrating
With more than 50 greenfields and large CAPEX
sites, ALECTIA helps you make the right decisions
expansions under our belt, we can provide you
from day one.
with high quality advice on all matters regarding your investment.
Our CAPEX project methodology and tools guide you safely through all phases of your project, from master plan through basic design, tendering and contracting to test and commissioning.
State-of-the-art brewery for Grolsch ALECTIA has assisted Grolsch Brewery in the planning and designing of a state-of-the-art greenfield brewery in The Netherlands. The brewery has been called one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly breweries in the world.
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New greenfield brewery in Tibet ALECTIA has assisted Tibet Tiandi Green Beverage Development CO., Ltd. with the establishment of a new, sizeable greenfield brewery in Lhasa, Tibet – a location that required specialist involvement to handle the special conditions due to the high altitude. The brewery has an annual production capacity of 2.0 million hl/year.
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Modification or migration of existing plants are
ALECTIA’s consultants have modified a large
often the most complex operations. It is necessary
number of plants around the globe - and in many
to know the details of the existing facilities in
different setups. Based on our expertise we
order to change them – and keep the production
provide you with experience and knowledge of
stable during the changes, while securing no
routes to go, and we ensure that you keep meeting
disruption of market supply.
the production targets and other demands to your plant.
Unicer expansion project Unicer Bebidas Group has completed a large expansion and reconstruction of breweries in Portugal. ALECTIA has assisted Unicer with the options and decision-making process before entering into design, tendering and managing of the complex project.
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Greenfield project for Carlsberg Malawi Recognizing the need for expansion and development of their packaging facilities, Carlsberg Malawi consulted ALECTIA to assist them. ALECTIA’s consultancy services for the establishment of a new production facility as a greenfield project included: new buildings, utilities, water and waste water treatment, and installation of a new packaging facility with a syrup preparation plant for soft drinks.
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Increased capacity at Cocio Chocolate Milk A/ S ALECTIA has helped Cocio Chocolate Milk A/ S in Esbjerg, Denmark, to increase capacity and create a master plan for future expansion. ALECTIA’s consultants have been in charge of plant design, contracts and management of the construction, bottling, utilities and dairy processes.
Services
Operational services
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Improve your performance
ALECTIA provides numerous services and technical assistance to your day to day operations. We have in-depth know-how, as many of our employees are engineers with a background in beverage and food production. Selected services Âť
Plant automation
From analysis to design and execution, ALECTIA develops and implements automation concepts. Our automation solutions focus on securing smooth and efficient production. To fully support your business, we integrate process equipment with manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning systems (ERP).
Utilities, Water and Energy
We are experts within water, energy and climate adaptation, and we have years of experience in performing tasks related to energy and water systems, water resource management and waste water treatment.
Sensory ANALYSES
An ALECTIA standard profile analysis considers samples of both fresh and aged products in order to produce a flavour stability analysis. We provide you with a thorough report commented by one of our brewing consultants.
Training and operation
Our training and operation services help ensure that your new plant is thoroughly tested, and your staff is trained and ready for full-scale production.
Everything we do is dedicated to improving the performance and profitability of our clients
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PACKAGING AND WAREHOUSING
A technical service agreement with ALECTIA
ALECTIA can turn your warehouse into a smooth
provides you with the reassurance of periodic
and efficient logistics facility tuned to support
assistance to safeguard high quality, prevent
production and provide a consistently high service
interrupted production and advise on the best
level to your customers. We help you plan the
next steps for your development.
logistics flows and minimise cost of operation while promoting safety for your employees.
Warehouse at Arcus, Norway ALECTIA has designed a new warehouse and order picking system as part of a new facility for processing, packaging, storage and distribution of wine and spirits for Arcus in Norway. The warehouse includes an automatic highbay warehouse of 31,000 pallets, monorail transport of up to 400 pallets/hour, an order picking system with a goods-to-man picking system and supporting up to 7,500 SKU’s, fully controlled by a WMS system.
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Use our experience to get ahead Contact us to learn what we can do for your company. Our way of working relies upon close cooperation at all stages of the process. As your independent adviser, we look forward to challenging you to help you achieve – and hopefully exceed – your goals.
ALECTIA A/S (Head Office) Teknikerbyen 34 2830 Virum Denmark +45 88 191 000 info@alectia.com ALECTIA Australia 10 Shelley Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia au@alectia.com ALECTIA Ltd. (United Kingdom) Kings Ride Court Kings Ride Ascot Berkshire SL5 7JR United Kingdom +44 1344 567 300 uk@alectia.com alectia.com