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The Holcim (U.S.) Ste. Genevieve facility used Danfoss VLT AutomationDrives, designed to handle industrial applications, for industrial fan motors, cutting the plant’s utility bill by enough to pay for the project in less than 2 years, and reducing utilit

Energy Efficiency

Building a better, more efficient plant

Gunn’s Hill Cheese uses a Danfoss VLT AutomationDrive FC 302 in a NEMA 12 enclosure to modulate a compressor in an outdoor chiller, saving cost by carefully controlling the scroll compressor’s speed and capacity. Courtesy: Danfoss

Process Instrumentation and Sensors

Technologies inside: Motor controls for artisan cheese maker

Shep Ysselstein, owner and “grand fromage” of Gunn’s Hill Cheese in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, shows off his cheese. Variable frequency drives (VFDs) are used to fluid pumps, in the ventilation system, cooling compressors, and to help lift and transport Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese pumps thousands of gallons of milk in and out of vats, stirs in ingredients, maintains precise temperatures using Danfoss variable frequency drives. Courtesy: Danfoss

Process Instrumentation and Sensors

Artisan cheese maker shares secret technology ingredient