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Stay more competitive than the competition
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At ALECTIA, we are dedicated to providing
facilities and equipment to optimisation
expert consultancy that creates better bottom lines of current production, environmental issues, and better product quality for dairies all over
management decision consultancy, and logistics.
the world. We advise our clients in all matters
Our 700 highly skilled employees are
concerning production - from installation of new
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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Dairy
ALECTIA has helped many major dairy companies around the world to apply modern layout process techniques to new and existing plants. Our experts have in-depth knowledge on both solid and liquid handling of products such as milk, cheese, butter, milk powder, yoghurt, cream, and ice cream.
Food
ALECTIA provides the food industry with comprehensive and cross-disciplinary consultancy services covering everything from the intake of livestock through to slaughtering and distribution. Our areas of expertise include factory planning and design, hygiene and food safety, packaging flows and logistics.
Beer and beverages
Within the beer and beverage industry, ALECTIA has an impressive record in working for all the great players 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.
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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 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 QUALITY ASSURANCE SIMULATION OF DESIGN INTEGRITY
Operations services TECHNICAL SERVICE AGREEMENT OPTIMISATION TROUBLESHOOTING PROCESS PACKAGING AND WAREHOUSING PLANT AUTOMATION UTILITIES, WATER AND ENERGY WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT TRAINING AND OPERATION PRODUCT QUALITY Health and safety
Working with ALECTIA’s experts, you can be
developments. Our vast experience has provided
confident of getting access to the very latest know-
us with a valuable benchmark database that helps
ledge and the most recent market and business
you set 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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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.
Sixty percent expansion of Taulov Dairy ALECTIA has designed Taulov Dairy with a future-proof layout and structural concept that accommodates future expansion scenarios for the cheese factory. Taulov Dairy is designed as a large-scale dairy that complies with international requirements for supply security and conceptual products. The recent expansion has taken place without the loss of production capacity or product downgrades.
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Production Structure Analysis
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 Production Structure Analysis will answer by identifying the optimal long-term production structure when evaluating the economic and technical consequences of the different scenarios.
New modern whey protein plant for Arla Foods Ingredients ALECTIA has helped Arla Foods Ingredients implement one of Europe’s largest whey protein plants at the existing plant Denmark Protein in Nr. Vium, Jutland. The new plant can process 4.5 billion kg whey annually, nearly doubling Denmark Protein’s total production capacity. Hygiene, the environment, and working conditions have been in focus, and the remodeling of the plant has been implemented without delays or cost overruns.
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.
Simulation of complex production facilities ALECTIA uses simulation for optimisation of complex production facilities. Simulation provides a much stronger and clearer linkage between design and operation and shows you how any change to your supply chain – whether driven by operations or by investments – will affect your daily operations.
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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 dairy, food and beve-
jects with the goal to improve your environmental
rage industry. Establishing your green production
footprint, your health and safety responsibilites,
of the future means defining your sustainability
and lowering your costs.
ambition and adopting a strategy for going from best practice of today to next practice.
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 gives you an
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Analysis
overview of all the phases your project can go
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
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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 cheese factory COLUN, Chile is building one of the most productive and sustainable cheese factories in the world. COLUN has hired ALECTIA to advise on the master plan and conceptual design of the plant. Futhermore, our experts have delivered a wide range of specialist skills within processes, utilities, project management and business consulting.
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Milk powder factory with a green profile Arla Foods Milk Powder factory in Vimmerby Sweden has been designed with a focus on the use of renewable resources and a minimal impact on the environment. The location was selected to minimize transport of incoming milk and the biofuel energy plant is based on waste from local timber production. The buildings are designed to visualize the high quality standards for the company and blend in with the surroundings at the same time.
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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.
Arla Foods upgrades the production facilities Arla Foods’ Kruså Dairy has gone through large changes, since the dairy was reorganized 10 years ago from production of yellow to white cheese. The total production area is now an impressive 30,000 m2, and the annual production capacity has been increased from 16,000 to 26,000 tonnes.
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Future-proof advise to the organic Thise Dairy Thise Dairy is the largest dairy in Denmark producing only organic dairy products. For 15 years, ALECTIA has been Thise Dairy’s trusted advisor, and we have been involved in projects on both the architect and the engineer side. Moreover, ALECTIA has advised Thise Dairy on a wide range of occupational health and safety challenges such as night work examinations, indoor climate in offices, noise control, and machine safety.
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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 expansions. 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 dairy, food and beverage production. Selected services Âť
Plant automation
ALECTIA develops and implements automation concepts securing a 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.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
From analysis to design and execution, ALECTIA offers a wide range of health and safety services – including consultancy on physical and psychological working environment, acoustics and noise, ergonomic health and safety, and organisational development.
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.
New impressive plant will future-proof Mammen Dairy Mammen Dairy is establishing a new large plant as an attachment to the original dairy in Mammen, Denmark. The project is part of a greater effort to strengthen the dairy’s competitiveness and market shares. ALECTIA is full-service consultant on the project and supplies all architectural and engineering services for the new Mammen Dairy.
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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 dairy@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