The Champagne's on Ice at ROCOL

ROCOL Lubricants is celebrating the completion of its 1000th ROCOLcare lubrication management survey with the UK's largest independent ice cream manufacturer, Frederick's Dairies.

The award-winning Frederick's Dairies produces innovative ice cream products for brand leaders including Cadbury and Del Monte.  The firm's Skelmersdale site, near Liverpool, produces a range of hand-held products from five production lines and has been a ROCOLcare customer for the last five years.

Having recently opened a new, fully automated production facility at Simonswood, Liverpool, Frederick's asked ROCOL to run a ROCOLcare survey at the new site and develop a lubrication management programme to ensure that equipment continues to run at maximum efficiency.
 
The Simonswood factory houses a state-of-the-art tub manufacturing line, which uses Europe's largest freezers to produce 16,000 litres of ice cream every hour and freezes the products in the world's largest spiral freezer.

Says Paul McKenzie, maintenance engineer at Frederick's: "We've seen the benefits that ROCOL's structured lubrication management system can deliver at our Skelmersdale site, so there was no question about getting the new site onto the ROCOLcare programme.