New brewery in Singapore opens mid-1989
I of Malayan Breweries Limited
M (MBL) in Singapore is scheduled to
start producing. This Heineken as
sociate company will then be the proud
owner of a highly advanced brewery
whose standard of automation and tech
nical ingenuity will even surpass that
at the Heineken brewery in Zoeter-
woude. Heineken Technical Services
(HTB, the Heineken division whose
specialisations include brewing
technology and engineering) designed
the brewery in cooperation with MBL
as the user and is handling the construc
tion, the installation of the equipment
and the commissioning of the Tuas pro
ject.
Ultramodern Tnas
42 n August this year the new brewery
This ambitious project by Malayan
Breweries (whose main shareholders
are Heineken and the Singapore-based
Fraser and Neave) was cautiously
started quite some years ago. The Tiger
and Anchor breweries no longer met re
quirements. The possible alternatives
were: combining the two breweries in
one of the existing locations, greatly
modernising the breweries, or building
a completely new brewery.
In August 1986 the choice was made:
on the Jurong Tuas industrial estate a
new brewery was to be built with an
annual capacity of 650,000 hectolitres.
Incidentally, the required capacity has
meanwhile already been raised to
735,000 hectolitres. The maximum at
tainable capacity amounts to one mil
lion hectolitres of marketable volume
per year. Just over six months later the
first piles were driven into the ground
and in August last year the local con
tractor set to work on laying the founda
tions for the buildings.
For more than a year now an instal
lation team, including three HTB em
ployees, has been hard at work on the
site. Meanwhile the structural work has
been completed for all the buildings and
the main installations are in place.
In phases
The opening of the Tuas brewery
means the closure of the Tiger and An
chor breweries. Tb ensure that optimum
use can be made of the Tiger and Anchor
equipment, the transfer of production
from the old breweries to the new one
will take place in phases.
When the 111 as brewery comes on
stream this August it will have the same
brewing output as the old Tiger brewery.
The latter brewery can then be closed
down, after which fifteen storage tanks
and some other equipment can be relo
cated to the Tuas brewery. Once these
tanks have been installed, the new brew
ery's capacity will equal that of the
two old ones. Subsequently, the Anchor
brewery can be closed. By about
March 1990 all serviceable equipment will
have been removed from the Anchor
brewery and installed in Tuas.
Central control room
The Tuas brewery will have one cen
tral operations and control room (unique
in the brewing industry), from which it
will be possible to supervise and regu-
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