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Rittal’s Blue e+ proves successful in India How PepsiCo successfully implemented Rittal’s Blue e+ unit to reduce energy consumption at its Indian-based plants.
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ultinational food, snack, and beverage corporation PepsiCo recently contracted the services of Rittal, a German owned manufacturer and pioneer in delivering energy efficient climate control solution for enclosures. Rittal was contracted to work with PepsiCo’s Indian based headquarters in Gurgaon, Haryana, with a brief outlining the corporations desires to protect the environment, find more energy-efficient means of production. The company was confident it could meet the brief given by PepsiCo with its range of innovative and technologically advanced products and services. The first step for Rittal after being contacted by PepsiCo was to conduct a health check-up and detailed audit of the site’s enclosure climate control which had been installed in one of their six existing plants at Paithan (Aurangabad). Director of marketing and IT sales, Rittal, Mark Roberts, said one of the first problems to overcome at the site was the local climate.
“The local climatic conditions would normally leave little room for reducing energy consumption,” said Roberts. “With the Blue e+ unit, PepsiCo were able to run the cooling units in free cooling mode during the cooler nights in summer and months of the year with lower temperatures.”
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Rittal engineers were able to diagnose the enclosure’s processes before handing down a detailed solution to install the correct climate control solutions. The Blue e+ is the latest version of the highly energy efficient cooling unit with hybrid technology. These cooling units have a longer
service life than ones that came before, coupled with an intuitive operation as a result of touch display and intelligent interfaces. The audit was designed to demonstrate to PepsiCo that Rittal could bring the right solution to the table. Before committing to the offering
Use of Blue e+ alsoincreases process uptime due in part to its ease of use.
