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Flawless compressed air for SPEICK natural cosmetics

From a fine soap factory to a specialist in natural cosmetics: The success story of SPEICK Naturkosmetik began in 1928 with the introduction of the classic Speick soap, a trademark of the family business from Stuttgart. The salmon-colored soap with its characteristic scent and the extract of the Speick plant from the Carinthian Nock Mountains was a groundbreaking innovation in body care at the time, as it not only cleaned but also cared for the skin.

Speick Original Soap is no longer the company’s only flagship product. The product range currently includes around 140 items, including deodorants, shower gels, shampoos, face creams and micellar water, all of which are manufactured at the exclusive location in Leinfelden-Echterdingen. The company’s popularity is growing steadily as customers appreciate the naturalness of the products.

Challenge

Compressed air is of crucial importance in the manufacturing processes of the cosmetics industry and is used in a wide range of applications. It is generally used for cleaning systems and containers, filling cosmetic products, transporting ingredients, operating packaging systems and soap production, among other things. To ensure that the use of compressed air does not pose any risks to the manufacturing process and the quality of the end products, the compressed air must be comprehensively treated and continuously monitored. Contaminants such as particles, moisture, germs or oil aerosols must be effectively controlled, as they can enter the compressed air system in various ways.

In order to keep up with production and produce as energy-efficiently as possible, SPEICK Naturkosmetik has updated its compressed air supply with the help of FILCOM GmbH and technology from KAESER Kompressoren SE. For energy and economic reasons, it was decided to replace the three existing screw compressors that were spread across the production area and thus minimize the time required for troubleshooting.

The new compressed air station could be accommodated in a technical room.

Solution statement

  • SPEICK Naturkosmetik expects high availability and efficiency from the new compressor technology.
  • It quickly became clear to the company that these requirements could be met with two KAESER screw compressors from the SK 25 series.
  • The SK models impress with their well thought-out, user-friendly design.
  • All maintenance points are easy to reach. When closed, the housing with its sound-absorbing cladding ensures a pleasant and quiet operating noise.
  • It also has three intake openings for separate air supply for highly effective cooling of the system, the drive motor and the control cabinet.
  • Thanks to their vertical design, the SK compressors are real space savers.
Oil-water separator QWIK-PURE for condensate treatment.

Customer value

  • A refrigeration dryer from the KAESER SECOTEC TC 36 series is used to dry the compressed, moist air.
  • Particularly in partial load operation, thanks to the energy saving control, excess cooling capacity can be temporarily stored in the thermal storage and used again for drying without using any electricity.
  • The responsive heat exchanger system ensures stable pressure dew points at all times.
  • When generating compressed air, significant amounts of oil-containing condensate are produced. Oil-water separators adsorb the oil and thus ensure drainable water.
  • SPEICK Naturkosmetik uses the QWIK-PURE 10 from BEKO Technologies for condensate treatment
  • By optimizing the compressed air, a valuable contribution could be made to the long-term cost balance of the entire system.
  • Two coalescent filters and a dust filter from KAESER Kompressoren ensure needs-based, reliable and energy-efficient compressed air treatment.
  • The system is set up in such a way that troubleshooting can be carried out very easily in the event of a pressure drop.
  • The entire system could now be accommodated in a technical room.
  • In addition, compressed air optimization made it possible to reduce costs significantly.

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