BOC’S THINK GATES HELPS FOOD PROCESSORS IMPROVE PROCESS MONITORING CAPABILITIES

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BOC’S THINK GATES HELPS FOOD PROCESSORS IMPROVE PROCESS MONITORING CAPABILITIES
19 September 2006 - BOC Gases

Food processors looking for ways to address plant production issues like fluctuating yield, poor efficiency and product inconsistency can get help from Think Gates(R), a BOC process optimization and service technology business.

John Rinald, business director, Think Gates, says, "One of the biggest challenges facing the food processing industry is delivering product consistency while maintaining the highest level of quality and efficiency. Our expertise is in measuring variables, such as temperature, weight, viscosity, moisture, and in using those measurements to immediately adjust the production process."

"We can measure these variables electronically using sensors or directly from equipment PLCs. The data is sent to either an automatic controller or on-site technician who makes adjustments in real time for better operational control and consistency," Rinald said.

The Think Gates technology and service is composed of a total package of monitors, sensors, software and a related network, which includes installation and maintenance. We provide a full-time, on-site coordinator who can monitor the process, analyze the data, and help drive change on the processing floor in order to help processors control variability in their manufacturing process.

BOC has years of expertise in addressing temperature, microbe and atmosphere control needs. Think Gates, has years of experience giving food processors real time data about what is happening on their plant floor in an effort to maximize production efficiencies and quality. The current Think Gates offering is in use in a number of major food processing companies in the poultry, red meat and snack foods industries.

Think Gates is a premier process management business with expertise in helping customers control the state of their product in every step of the process using BOC’s proprietary Think Gates technology and service.

Food and beverage processors look to BOC for its experience and expertise in helping to deliver the engineered solutions they need. BOC helps customers address their atmosphere, microbe and temperature control requirements so they can deliver the highest quality food and beverages to their customers. BOC provides a range of offerings, such as ozone and UV light anti-microbial systems, cryogenic gases including carbon dioxide and nitrogen for freezing and chilling, modified atmosphere packaging, state-of-the-art food and beverage monitoring and control technologies, and water management services.

The BOC Group, the worldwide industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It employs more than 30,000 people and had annual sales of over $8.3 billion in 2004.

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About: BOC Gases
Through its PGS line of business, BOC supplies gas and related solutions to the chemicals, petroleum, glass, water services, electronic packaging, fibre optics, hydrogen energy, metals and food industries. BOC helps meet customer needs in a variety of ways, from the supply of a single gas or application through to designing, constructing and operating fully integrated gas and utilities schemes.

The BOC Group, which serves two million customers in more than 50 countries, is one of the largest and most global of the world's leading gases companies. It employs some 44,500 people worldwide and had annual sales of over £4.3 billion in 2003. Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at www.boc.com

The BOC Group has an international portfolio of companies grouped for management control and reporting into three lines of business: Process Gas Solutions, Industrial and Special Products, and BOC Edwards. It also has a specialist logistics business, Gist.

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