Success Stories

As part of the rapidly expanding Leeds Kirkstall Brewery, ABM were commissioned to automate fully the new Brewery and Cleaning system. An Allen Bradley compact logix PLC processor is used to automatically control all the brewing process and a low cost Scada implementation was put in place.The system allows the operator to configure recipes easily … Read more New Kirkstall Brewery Now Fully Automatic

As part of the expansion of the Big Bog Brewing Company and the opening of a second larger micro brewery the company commissioned ABM to provide a full automated fermentation control system. Along with the FV automation ABM also provided a new control panel allowing manual control of the heaters during Mashing and Sparging and … Read more Big Bog Brand New Micro Brewery

ABM has successfully completed an expansion of the yeast handling plant at Marston’s Bank’s Park Brewery in Wolverhampton. Marston’s took over production of most of Thwaites beers after the closure of Thwaites main brewery, and needed to have extra yeast storage capacity for the Thwaites yeast strains. ABM were approached to help complete the project … Read more Marston’s New Yeast Plant

ABM were commissioned by the family brewer, Wadworth in Devizes to convert an existing cleaning system from an existing outdated Toshiba PLC to a modern Allen Bradley Processor. Wadworth required their system to be optimised, but as no source code was available and the PLC had been discontinued by the manufacturer some time ago, we … Read more Wadworth CIP System Upgrade

ABM have successfully completed the installation of the first two Cubes for Diageo in Ghana and Nigeria.The innovative containerised spirit blending and packaging plant is expected to be a roaring success and help overcome the logistical hurdle and to tap in to the local spirits market. Each Cube was manufactured at ABM in Widnes, with … Read more Diageo’s Cubes Complete

ABM have an excellent long term relationship with Halewood International Ltd and they approached us for an innovative solution for their vacuum pump seal water systems.The seal water systems attached to the bottle fillers in the packaging hall at Huyton, wasted vast amounts of water. ABM have many years’ experience and a proven track record … Read more Halewood International – Seal Water Recovery System

Hydes brand new Cask Brewhouse “The Beer Studio” is located on the edge of the thriving Media City in Salford, Manchester.Its completion took place towards the end of 2012 and included a whole repertoire of cutting edge fully automated systems, with ABM being responsible from its initial conceptual design, right through to completion. The Microbreweries … Read more Hydes New “The Beer Studio” Completion

December 2011 sees the official turn on for latest Farmgen Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant at Dryholme Farm, near Silloth.ABM was commissioned by Farmgen to design and write the whole of the automation software for the Plant. The Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant at Dryholme Farm, near Silloth, started supplying electricity to the national grid in November … Read more Farmgen Anaerobic Digestion plant at Dryholme Farm

During the Christmas peak period of brewing Cains Brewery had a spot of trouble when an ageing automation system failed.Due to obsolete equipment there was no alternative but to replace the system in it’s entirety. To allow the brewery to continue producing quality ales ABM stepped in and put in place a temporary automation system … Read more Cains Brewery – Routing and CIP System Upgrade