Case Study

Fountain Foods produce a vast range of fresh, frozen and brined products to the food industry. From frozen coated vegetable products to pickles, Fountain Foods’ key belief is that quality and service are fundamental to achieving customer satisfaction.

With multiple drop points across the Fountain Foods site, they required a cleaning system that was flexible and could be used by multiple operatives without suffering from reduced performance.

Fountain Foods were using a high pressure cleaning system, which was not delivering the quality of foam required for satisfactory cleaning. The high pressure units required a lot of maintenance and the hygiene team were having to ‘double clean’ many areas of the factory as debris was sprayed from one surface to another.

FoodClean by QJS arranged a site visit to Fountain Foods and worked with site drawings to devise a medium pressure system. Initially a centralised system was the preferred choice, however after experiencing the flexibility and user-friendly nature of the Q2 Mobile machine, this was the chosen option to proceed with.

The Q2 mobile machine delivers all of the benefits of a medium pressure cleaning system, including the delivery of chemical, rinse and disinfectant through one wash gun.

With the Q2 mobiles, these can be manoeuvred around the factory to be used at any drop point. This was especially important as the site drawing included more than 20 drop points and would involve multiple hygiene operatives.

One of the major pain points was the unreliability and maintenance required with Fountain Foods’ high pressure system. The Q2 mobiles, as with all FoodClean cleaning systems, use a centrifugal, water lubricated pump. This means that not only are they more robust, reliable and efficient, but with only one shaft seal per pump, there are few wearing parts. The inverter driven rinse pump only uses electricity proportionate to the amount of operatives drawing from the system, which saves on cost and is more environmentally friendly, whilst the slow start/stop and variable speed means much less wear and noise.

Fountain Foods have found great success from moving to the medium pressure Q2 machines.

The machines provide an improved clean by retaining the heat and water velocity better than high pressure, meaning the hygiene operatives clean faster and with less water.

As the machines are more efficient, Fountain Foods are able to clean more without increasing their water or electricity usage.

Chemicals are no longer pre-mixed and the hygiene team have everything they need to clean effectively at the point of use.